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“You will also be betrayed by your parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends, and some of you will be put to death” (Luke 21:16). In brief words, our Lord predicted the fiercest persecution, persecution from our own people - from parents, from brothers, from relatives, from friends. For what could be greater than suffering from loved ones? A wound on the body, cutting with a sword, cutting with a razor, stretching on a wheel, burning in an oven, the teeth of animals is not as painful as the wound of the heart, wounded by grief, which is inflicted by one’s relatives, warring friends, persecutors, betrayers to death. And cruel death is not as painful as the hostile betrayal of it by one’s loved ones (2).
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