This new light does not correspond with their definitions.

It has not the orthodox color, and does not shine from the orthodox place, therefore it must at all costs be extinguished lest it lead men astray into the paths of heresy! Many enemies of the Prophets are of this type--blind leaders of the blind, who oppose new and fuller truth in the supposed interests of what they believe to be the truth.

Others are of baser sort and are moved by selfish interests to fight against truth, or else block the path of progress by reason of spiritual deadness and inertia.
Persecution of Prophets The great Prophets of religion have always been, at Their coming, despised and rejected of men.

Both They and Their early followers have given their backs to the smiters and sacrificed their possessions and their lives in the path of God.

Even in our own times this has been so.