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(:Faith in Jesus Christ was the real cause of persecutions of the Christian community in Rome. They were a small minority in the midst of a pagan majority.:) However, God ruled over both the Christians and the pagans and their mighty emperors. For the pagans could not pluck even a hair from the heads of the faithful without His will. Therefore, if they were killed, it was in accordance with His will; He wanted to test His servants and to magnify their glory through their martyrdom; He did not tempt ties beyond their strength, but provided, along with the temptation, also a way a of escape, that they might be able to endure it. (:In this way the pagans were an instrument of the faith of Christ hidden in the hands of God. But the true faith is always unknown and hidden to the rulers and pagans as well as the unfaithful Christians.:) The knowledge and the wisdom of the faith of Christ is hidden from them who seek God in a painted wall, and no one can discover this hidden secret unless it be given from above, by God. Being hidden and secret it is contrary to the world and the world despises it. A world faithfully praying to painted walls Acts 27:34.

1-Cor. 10:13.

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