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Even in the midst of adversity and persecution, David does not cry out against it
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I rejoice that in pain there is comfort, in struggle there is ability to overcome, in persecution there is endurance, and in torture there is a crown
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She had never before felt the fear of persecution for having too much faith, and it was a much more terrifying fear than her fear that in Gordon’s Lamp she had too little
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persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended
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I had the sense that this represented a time of persecution and trial
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stripping of the bark is a time of testing, persecution, and
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midst of the persecution and tribulation of the end times”
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But should the sovereign attempt irregularly, and by violence, to deprive any number of clergymen of their freeholds, on account, perhaps, of their having propagated, with more than ordinary zeal, some factious or seditious doctrine, he would only render, by such persecution, both them and their doctrine ten times more popular, and therefore ten times more troublesome and dangerous, than they had been before
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It is, accordingly, in presbyterian countries only, that we ever find the common people converted, without persecution completely, and almost to a man, to the established church
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I cannot help wondering whether she would have been so worshipful, had she been required to spend even one night at the Lubyanka, under the not so tender ministrations of Stalin"s KGB, or was it the NKVD? She had a big thing about the so-called persecution of Blacks in America
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Would she have had sense enough to understand the persecution of virtually everyone in the Soviet Union? I doubt it
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With respect to the officers and crew…if the facts stated by Captain Waddell are true, there is clearly no case for any persecution on the ground of piracy in the courts of this country, and we presume that her Majesty’s government is not in possession of any evidence which could be produced before any court or magistrate for the purpose of contravening the statement or showing that the crime of piracy has, in fact, been committed…With respect to any persons on the Shenandoah who cannot immediately be proceeded against and
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demonstrated signs of timidity or caution as they otherwise relate to their relentless persecution of the ―Unborn
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Who can this anti-Communist hysteria, paranoia, and persecution of anything even vaguely suspicious be ascribed to? The architect of this fear mongering was at the very top
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“With your history of violence, and your history of mental illness, including a persecution complex, what with being all paranoid and delusional; we have to make certain types of assumptions,” the sergeant was explaining earnestly in a friendly, and non-judgmental fashion, and Bru just sat there drinking it all in
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Some fearfully changed their German names, anglicizing them to avoid persecution
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Today only a small fraction of German-Americans speak German, a legacy of the persecution of World War I and after
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These four nations all share in common that supposed genocide against whites looms large in the imaginations and fears of white racists, white supremacists, and other whites with persecution complexes
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In all four countries, there were or are either atrocities or political persecution
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Yet while this prosecution is also persecution, it is not deadly
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Private Mott of the 5th, was given fifty lashes and almost bled to death for, and I quote: ’Not being vigilant enough in the persecution of vile deeds that promoted sin, incurred the wrath of the Gods or were an affront to the Pantheon and the Ruling Council’
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Persecution now comes from different sources
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There are centuries of persecution, hurt and misunderstanding to be dealt with
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Proceeding from that event, the “Followers of the Way” struggled through seemingly endless torture and persecution until in approximately three hundred years (AD 30 to AD 325) a Roman general saw a vision that resulted in the permanent establishment of this new belief system
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Today we, here in the United States, observe the government in a modern reiteration of the old Roman attempt to reduce Christian influence even if only by a more subtle persecution meant to silence their witness to the superiority of The Way
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This liberality created rancor among the faithful who had borne the brunt of the whip of persecution as others had run for the cover of denial
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“Christians hear this!” someone had told me who had been there, and had heard him scream this, sometime in the beginning of the great persecution
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But honest history will record it [at least in its early part] as an attempt at restoration of stolen Christian/Roman lands and the relief of persecution of innocent pilgrims whose only wish was to visit the many shrines built during the many centuries of previous Christian occupancy
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The Crusades did lift the onus of persecution of Christian pilgrims for a time
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” In those early times the latter were forced to recant their beliefs at the threat of their lives, mirroring the recantations of the early Christians as they faced death by persecution
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Christians in 1933 that escaped from persecution by the leading of
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Others said it was the declaration (December 11, ’41) and persecution of war on Germany by the U
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Inclusion and love is what should be taken from the bible, not many reasons for exclusion and persecution, this was never the original purpose or intention
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Thorns: A curse; something that hinders through trial; gossip; perverse occurrences; persecution; life’s cares and concerns; place of defense
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imagined, without tears, slander, pain or persecution
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5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest
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He was arrested and imprisoned Jeremiah 20: 2; this persecution was predicted,
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The critical theorist scorns logic and reason as weapons of persecution wielded by “white male trash” designed for the “hegemonistic suppression” of females and minorities
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Among the denominations and sects in the American Colonies at the end of the Eighteenth century there was no shortage of intolerance or persecution of opposing sects
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Not mincing his words, Roger castigated Castro for his mismanagement of the Cuban economy through hit-and-miss policies, for his relentless persecution of people who dared to disagree with him, and for his ill-advised and damaging adventurism with Cuban soldiers into world conflicts thousands of miles away from Cuban soil
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settled down quietly on his paternal estate, and in all probability history would never have known his name if the intolerable persecution of a neighboring Polish squire, who stole his hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, had not converted the thrifty and acquisitive Cossack husbandman into one of the most striking and sinister figures of modern times
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43 Also all those who fled for persecution joined themselves to them and were a stay to them
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Persecution of Christians happened everywhere around the world
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The Martyr Road symbolized the suffering, persecution, and death of a martyr
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" "About two thousand Christians also with Nicanor one of the seven deacons suffered martyrdom during the persecution that arose about Stephen"
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It was not until ten years after the death of Stephen that the second martyrdom took place; for no sooner had Herod Agrippa been appointed governor of Judea than with a view to ingratiate himself with them he raised a sharp persecution against the Christians and determined to make an effectual blow by striking at their leaders
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Apostle Paul (Apostle of Jesus Christ appointed after the Resurrection by Jesus) Paul the apostle who before was called Saul after his great travail and unspeakable labors in promoting the Gospel of Christ suffered also in this first persecution under Nero
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When oppression or persecution arises because of the word immediately he stumbles
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When oppression or persecution arises because of the word immediately they stumble
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Everyone who hears the word of the kingdom and understands it not the evil one comes and snatches away the word that has been sown in his heart and this is that which was sown on the middle of the highway; But that which was sown on the rocks is he who hears the word and straightway receives 45 it with joy; only it has no root in his soul but his belief in it is for a time; and whenever there is distress or persecution because of a word he stumbles quickly; And that which was sown among the thorns is he who hears the word; and the care of this world and the error of riches and the rest of the other lusts enter and choke the word and it becomes without fruit; And that which was sown in good ground is he who hears my word in a pure and good heart and understands it and holds to it and bring out fruit with patience and produce either a hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirty
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Truely I say to you No man leaves houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or kinsfolk or lands because of the Kingdom of God or for my 9 sake and the sake of my gospel who shall not obtain many times as much in this time and in the world to come inherit eternal life and now in this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecution; 11 and in the world to come everlasting life
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to those who have suffered persecution
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Persecution and the Blessing
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Persecution will only increase the power of the blessing upon the
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persecution during that time: "Even if you should suffer for the
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The blessing of the Lord cannot be stopped by persecution or
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Supreme Court ordered the rules for political asylum restricted to proof of “clear probability” of persecution or threats to aliens for political reasons in the nations from which they escaped (Urdang, pp
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13:11-32 Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given because whoever has to him it shall be given back and he shall have greater abundance; but whoever has nothing from him it shall be taken away even that which he holds; therefore I speak to them in parables because they while looking see nothing and while hearing they do not listen neither do they understand; and through them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah who says: By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand and by seeing you all shall see and shall not perceive because this people’s heart is stiffened hard and their ears are deadened in hearing and their eyes they have closed in case at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them; but blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear; because truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them; therefore hear the parable of the sower: When any one hears the word of the Kingdom and does not understand it then the Wicked One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart; This is he who received the seed by the way side; but he who received the seed in stony places he is the same who hears the word and oblivious with joy receives it; still he has no root in himself but endures for a while because when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word eventually he is offended
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Do you not know this parable? and how then will you know all the other parables? The sower sows the word; and these are those by the way side where the word is sown; but when they have heard Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts and these are they who similarly are sown onto stony ground; who when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in themselves and so endure but for a time afterward who when affliction or persecution arises for the word’s sake are immediately offended; and these are those who are sown among thorns; who so hear the word but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word and it becomes unfruitful; and these are those who are sown on good ground who so hear the word and receive it and produce fruit some thirty times some sixty and some a hundred times; and is a candle brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? and not set on a candlestick? Because there is nothing hidden that shall not be displayed; neither is there anything kept secret unless that it should become shown to the other nations; If any man have ears to hear let him listen; Be diligent about what you hear; With what measure you give it shall be measured and given back to you; and to you who listen then more shall be given to you; because he who has something to him shall more be given and he who has nothing even that which he holds it shall be taken away from him; Also the Kingdom of God is as though a man should throw seed into the ground; and then should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should shoot up and grow but he knows not how; because the soil produces fruit by itself; first the blade then the ear after that the full ear of corn; but when the fruit is produced immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come
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2 From this came emulation and envy strife and sedition persecution and disorder war and captivity
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We can thank God for working good in the midst of our hardships, but I don’t believe we should ever thank Him for any kind of evil hardships that might come against us (except maybe persecution)
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Following God means trusting God with your life; it means desiring to follow him through persecution, hardship and struggle
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Millions have been forced to leave their homes and become refugees because of violence, persecution, or in search of basic necessities of life like water, food, work or shelter
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It was due to the relentless persecution that Eisenbaum came into existence: a place where all the members of the magical world could profess their tasks without restriction
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With this small trick I was seeking to cancel the witch persecution in the air
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The chill of persecution settled on their souls for the remainder of the ride
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Makarios of Egypt, in Spiritual Homilies, puts it in these words: “Wherever the Holy Spirit is there also follows, inevitably, like a shadow, persecution and conflict
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In bitter times of persecution let our attention turn to the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, and He wil
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We can indefatigably say, without conviction or fear of persecution from the stone-throwers, the spit-uponers, and the mockers of the world, that there are those things which the individual will, given time and conditioning, cling to with such persistence and readiness as likely to exhaust the very one who wonders why the other does what they do at such extreme degree
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Her heart was the habitation of sorrow that night, and fear of a reprisal of said persecution the next day made her weary concerning school in the morning
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Peter could withstand persecution and any other form of direct assault, but he withered and shrank before ridicule
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He gave wise counsel to the apostles after Pentecost and, when persecution scattered the believers, went to Cyprus, Crete, the North African coast, and Sicily, preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom and baptizing believers
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The seed which fell upon the rocky places, and which sprang up so suddenly, represents those superficial and unthinking persons who, when they hear the glad tidings, receive the message with joy; but because the truth has no real root in their deeper understanding, their devotion is short-lived in the face of tribulation and persecution
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A systematic persecution to destroy the young Khaurani men able to bear arms has been savagely pursued
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He warned them that they would encounter hostility and be certain to meet with persecution
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His sisters really needed him, but Jesus regretted having to summon his friend back to experience the bitter persecution which he well knew Lazarus would have to endure as a result of being the subject of the greatest of all demonstrations of the divine power of the Son of Man
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20 By the time the Apostle John began to write the story of Jesus' life and teachings, the early Christians had experienced so much trouble with the kingdom-of-God idea as a breeder of persecution that they had largely abandoned the use of the term
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" Judas had never shrunk from persecution, but he could not stand this sort of ridicule
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2 Many times has this unreasoning and un-Christlike hatred and persecution of modern Jews terminated in the suffering and death of some innocent and unoffending Jewish individual whose very ancestors, in the times of Jesus, heartily accepted his gospel and presently died unflinchingly for that truth which they so wholeheartedly believed
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4 Then Andrew inquired: "But, Master, if the Holy City and the temple are to be destroyed, and if you are not here to direct us, when should we forsake Jerusalem?" Said Jesus: "You may remain in the city after I have gone, even through these times of travail and bitter persecution, but when you finally see Jerusalem being encompassed by the Roman armies after the revolt of the false prophets, then will you know that her desolation is at hand; then must you flee to the mountains
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And then, when adversity and persecution descend upon you, still others whom you think love the truth will be scattered, and some will renounce the gospel and desert you
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6 "Doubt not any of these truths even after you are scattered abroad by persecution and are downcast by many sorrows
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If your monarch was sufficiently convinced of the innocence of our religion to protect us from the persecution of the ignorant, then certainly one of his subjects need have no apprehensions
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Persecution caused the followers of Asura to hide their temples with cunning art, and to veil their rituals in obscurity; and this secrecy, in turn, evoked more monstrous suspicions and tales of evil
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2 Much of the early persecution of Christians in Rome was due solely to their unfortunate use of the term "kingdom" in their preaching
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4 That which gave greatest power to Christianity was the way its believers lived lives of service and even the way they died for their faith during the earlier times of drastic persecution
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Not that they minded, primitive living conditions free of fear from persecution were better than living in the lap of luxury in fear for one’s life
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The world needed to know about the injustices and persecution Muslims suffered at the hands of the authorities in this Godless country
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Paul is addressing Timothy about his own persecution and suffering for
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been scattered abroad because of persecution, and he calls them elect
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Many have not learned universal love and perhaps the greatest lesson is not for the soul to undergo terrible persecution for sexual beliefs or the love of the same gender, but for man to understand that there is still a soul in each physical form
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Often there is previous debt that must be paid for prior actions, and there is persecution experienced in this lifetime that was a direct result of the actions taken by that soul in a previous life
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There is no need for judgment or persecution, most often, through sexual preference or any other ‘moral’ issue
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Many would still learn and accomplish actions, lessons, and learning by observing the actions of others without the hatred, violence and persecution that is experienced now
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Many have not learned universal love, and perhaps the greatest lesson is not for the soul to undergo terrible persecution for sexual beliefs or the love of the same gender, but for mankind to understand that there is still a soul in each physical form
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minorities have been subjected to persecution and brutality
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”2 God used this harsh persecution to cleanse Israel and separate the courageous from the cowardly among His people
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The old bookseller, knowing about Aureliano’s love for books that had been read only by the Venerable Bede, urged him with a certain fatherly malice to get into the discussion, and without even taking a breath, he explained that the cockroach, the oldest winged insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testa-ment, but that since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour and sugar, and with its one thousand six hundred three varieties had resisted the most ancient, tenacious, and pitiless persecution that mankind had unleashed against any living thing since the beginnings, including man himself, to such an ex-tent that just as an instinct for reproduction was at-tributed to humankind, so there must have been another one more definite and pressing, which was the in-stinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invul-nerable because of man’s congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, and per omnia secula seculorum, the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun