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Dioko is Greek for persecuted. It means to pursue, to follow after, or to press forward. The LDS people have seen their fair share of injustices. However by and large, the troubles they’ve had in life are self-inflicted which disqualifies them from what Jesus was talking about.
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Gospel Doctrine, p. 46; “Perhaps no people were ever more persecuted than this people would be if it were in the power of the enemy today to persecute us as it was in the power of Nero and the Romans to persecute the Saints in their day…And this is evidence to everyone that God’s Priesthood is here, that many of the Saints are magnifying their calling and honoring the Priesthood and also the Lord, both with their lives and with their substance, which are his. Deseret Weekly News, vol. 24, pp, 708, 1875.” – Joseph F. Smith