The Savior
has taught men what they could never learn among the idols. It is also no
small exposure of the weakness and nothingness of demons and idols, for it was
because they knew their own weakness that the demons were always setting men to
fight each other, fearing lest, if they ceased from mutual strife, they would
turn to attack the demons themselves. For in truth the disciples of
Christ, instead of fighting each other, stand arrayed against demons by their
habits and virtuous actions, and chase them away and mock at their captain the
devil. Even in youth they are chaste, they endure in times of testing and
persevere in toils. When they are insulted, they are patient, when robbed
they make light of it, and, marvelous to relate, they make light even of death
itself, and become martyrs of Christ.
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