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Chapter
XXXIV.—Temptation of Christ.
“This we would have you know assuredly, that
a demon has no power against a man, unless one voluntarily submit
himself to his desires.744
| 744 [The close of this
discourse, chaps. 34–37, resembles that of the first at Tripolis,
in Homily VIII. 21, 24. As already indicated, much of Homily IX.
finds a parallel in this book.—R.] | Whence even
that one who is the prince of wickedness, approached Him who, as we
have said, is appointed of God King of peace, tempting Him, and began
to promise Him all the glory of the world; because he knew that when he
had offered this to others, for the sake of deceiving them, they had
worshipped him. Therefore, impious as he was, and unmindful of
himself, which indeed is the special peculiarity of wickedness, he
presumed that he should be worshipped by Him by whom he knew that he
was to be destroyed. Therefore our Lord, confirming the worship
of one God, answered him: ‘It is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou
serve.’745
And he,
terrified by this answer, and fearing lest the true religion of the one
and true God should be restored, hastened straightway to send forth
into this world false prophets, and false apostles, and false teachers,
who should speak indeed in the name of Christ, but should accomplish
the will of the demon.
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