A strong faith is a faith that is not moved by afflictions. The word moved is taken from a word that means to wag the tail like a dog; hence it came to mean to flatter, to deceive, to hoodwink, to beguile, to lead astray by some deceptive strategy.1 This gives us some picture of the types of persecution going on. ⇒ There was an attack of spreading lies and rumors about the minister Paul: a persecution of deceit and guile; a deliberate strategy of deception. Apparently this was why the rumors of immorality