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How did Christian leaders instruct those Christians who inclined to provoke the Romans to persecute them?

They taught Christians how to convince the procurator to excuse them from sacrificing to the emperor.
They encouraged Christians to provoke the Romans to persecute them.
They provided information about a secret network that helped Christians escape persecution.
They discouraged Christians from provoking the Romans to persecuted them.

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They discouraged Christians from provoking the Romans to persecute them.

Early Christian leaders forbade seeking out persecution or deliberately offending Roman religious practices; they urged obedience to civil order when possible and warned against courting martyrdom.