{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/204/2040319.htm","path":"chr/ecf/204/2040319.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/204/2040319.htm","text":"6. The Lord\u2019s example followed by the Saints.\nOur Lord therefore, as I said before, thus offered Himself for all; and the Saints having received this example from their Saviour (for all of them before His coming, nay always, were under His teaching), in their conflicts with their persecutors acted lawfully in flying, and hiding themselves when they were sought after. And being ignorant, as men, of the end of the time which Providence had appointed unto them, they were unwilling at once to deliver themselves up into the power of those who conspired against them. But knowing on the other hand what is written, that \u2018the portions\u2019 of man \u2018are in God\u2019s hand 1463 ,\u2019 and that \u2018the Lord killeth 1464 ,\u2019 and the Lord \u2018maketh alive,\u2019 they the rather endured unto the end, \u2018wandering about 1465 ,\u2019 as the Apostle has said, \u2018in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute, tormented, wandering in deserts,\u2019 and hiding themselves \u2018in dens and caves of the earth;\u2019 until either the appointed time of death arrived, or God who had appointed their time spake unto them, and stayed the designs of their enemies, or else delivered up the persep. 261 cuted to their persecutors, according as it seemed to Him to be good. This we may well learn respecting all men from David: for when Joab instigated him to slay Saul, he said, \u2018As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and be delivered to the enemies; the Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord\u2019s anointed 1466 .\u2019\nHeb. 11:37, 38.\n261:1466","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. IV: Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.): The Lord's example followed by the Saints.","type":"page"}