He stated explicitly in his letters to his Russian Christian patrons that his purpose in doing so was to warn Christians that they were not abiding by Jesus' doctrines, and that in attacking Jews they were persecuting Jesus himself.
As Karl Jaspers, himself persecuted by the Nazis, put it: "That which has happened is a warning.
On the other he is Christ himself; persecuted, overflowing with love of humanity, crucified.
He was acquitted, but the case affected his mind, and he imagined himself persecuted, even by Siri.
Some historians, notably the American Louis Gottschalk, have concluded that he came to suffer from a "martyr complex," imagining himself persecuted by powerful enemies.
1.28pm BST Snowden finds himself persecuted by those who should be providing information to the world about what Snowden has revealed, he says.
He depicted himself as persecuted by his opponents for casting his lot with the poor.
Portraying himself as persecuted like Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Jean, 42, writes with indignation about insinuations that he had used his charity, Yéle, for personal gain.
On March 28, a 19-year-old Afghan from a group persecuted by the Taliban hanged himself after 10 months' detention — the system's fifth suicide in seven months.
In due time, Charles finds himself an "astral bigamist," persecuted by the tyrannical ghosts of both wives.
