Blind-man-shire

"There are those who persecute in ignorance. Such were even some of the persecutors of our Lord, and hence his dying prayer—'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,' Luke 23:34. For such as these there is mercy. Hence the dying prayer of the martyr Stephen—'Lay not this sin to their charge,' Acts 7:60. Saul of Tarsus was also one of this class, for he says of himself, 'Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief,' 1 Timothy 1:13."[2]