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| Commandment Seventh. On Fearing God, and Not Fearing the Devil.
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On Fearing God, and Not Fearing the
Devil.
“Fear,” said he, “the Lord,
and keep His commandments.197
For if you keep the commandments of God, you
will be powerful in every action, and every one of your actions will be
incomparable. For, fearing the Lord, you will do all things well. This
is the fear which you ought to have, that you may be saved. But fear not
the devil; for, fearing the Lord, you will have dominion over the devil,
for there is no power in him. But he in whom there is no power ought on no
account to be an object of fear; but He in whom there is glorious power
is truly to be feared. For every one that has power ought to be feared;
but he who has not
power is despised by all. Fear,
therefore, the deeds of the devil, since they are wicked. For, fearing
the Lord, you will not do these deeds, but will refrain from them. For
fears are of two kinds:198
for if you do not wish to do that which is evil,
fear the Lord, and you will not do it; but, again, if you wish to do that
which is good, fear the Lord, and you will do it. Wherefore the fear of
the Lord is strong, and great, and glorious. Fear, then, the Lord, and
you will live to Him, and as many as fear Him and keep His commandments
will live to God.” “Why,”199
| 199 Why … they only who fear the Lord,
omitted in Vat. | said I, “sir, did you say in regard
to those that keep His commandments, that they will live to God?”
“Because,” says he, “all creation fears the Lord, but
all creation does not keep His commandments. They only who fear the Lord
and keep His commandments have life with God;200
but as to
those who keep not His commandments, there is no life in them.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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