Matthew 5:11
Douay-Rheims
Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:
Augustine of Hippo
(ubi sup.) It may be asked, what difference there is between ‘they shall revile you,’ and ‘shall speak all manner of evil of you;’ to revile, it may be said, being but to speak evil of. But a reproach thrown with insult in the face of one present is a different thing from a slander cast on the character of the absent. To persecute includes both open violence and secret snares.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:11-12
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.