Romans 8:36. As it is written. From Psalms 44:22, quite exactly in the words of the LXX. The whole Psalm refers to the sufferings of God's people, and the verse, even if not directly prophetic, is typical of the treatment the world bestows on God's children. The special point proven by the quotation is the danger of the ‘sword,' since to this extremity persecution had gone in the case of the saints of old.

We were accounted, etc. Because thus reckoned as sheep destined for slaughter, they were killed all the day long.

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