Jer. xxxviii. 5. Behold he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
Dan. vi. 4. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel.
Wis. ii. 10. Let us oppress the poor righteous man; let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.
S. John xi. 47. Then gathered the chief priests and ihe Pharisees a council, and said, What do we ?
Gal. v. 20. Seditions, heresies.
Here is another example, section 456 in the original ;
That the righteous are ridiculed, and suffer persecution in the present life.
Gen. iv. 8. Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
xv. 13. Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years
xvi. 4. Her mistress was despised in her eyes.
xix. 9. This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge; now will we deal worse with thee than with them.
xxi. 9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
xxvi. 14, And the Philistines envied him.
xxvii. 41. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.
xxxi, 23, And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journcy.
