Anf-03 v.x.xiii Pg 3
Gen. xxv. 34; xxvii. 25.
—how he, (I say,) speaks in favour of martyrdoms, now to be chosen by himself also, when, rejoicing over the Thessalonians, he says, “So that we glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations, in which ye endure a manifestation of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be accounted worthy of His kingdom, for which ye also suffer!”8307 8307
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.vi Pg 99.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 27
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