18. Why should I relate that Jezebel, 1 [3] Kings xix. 1. also persecuted Elisha after a bloodthirsty fashion? or that Herodias S. Matt. xiv. 3. caused John the Baptist to be slain? Individuals persecuted individuals; but for me, whose merits are far inferior, the trials are all the harder. My strength is less, but I have more danger. Of women change follows on change, their hatreds alternate, their falsehoods vary, elders assemble together, wrong done to the Emperor is made a pretence. What is then the reason of such severe temptation against me, a mere worm; except that they are attacking not me but the Church?