and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

So he said, "A nobleman once went to a distant country to secure his appointment to a kingdom and then return.

If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.

I am undecided between the two, for I long to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross.