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Chapter
XXXVI.
But the angels, who are the true rulers and generals and
ministers of God, do not, as Celsus supposes, “injure those who
offend them;” and if certain demons, whom Celsus had in mind, do
inflict evils, they show that they are wicked, and that they have
received no office of the kind from God. And they even do injury
to those who are under them, and who have acknowledged them as their
masters; and accordingly, as it would seem that those who break through
the regulations which prevail in any country in regard to matters of
food, suffer for it if they
are under the demons of that place, while those who are not under them,
and have not submitted to their power, are free from all harm, and bid
defiance to such spirits; although if, in ignorance of certain things,
they have come under the power of other demons, they may suffer
punishment from them. But the Christian—the true Christian,
I mean—who has submitted to God alone and His Word, will suffer
nothing from demons, for He is mightier than demons. And the
Christian will suffer nothing, for “the angel of the Lord will
encamp about them that fear Him, and will deliver them,”4918
and his “angel,” who
“always beholds the face of his Father in heaven,”4919
offers up his prayers through the one High
Priest to the God of all, and also joins his own prayers with those of
the man who is committed to his keeping. Let not, then, Celsus
try to scare us with threats of mischief from demons, for we despise
them. And the demons, when despised, can do no harm to those who
are under the protection of Him who can alone help all who deserve His
aid; and He does no less than set His own angels over His devout
servants, so that none of the hostile angels, nor even he who is called
“the prince of this world,”4920
can effect anything against those who have given themselves to
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