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Chapter XVII.—Suggestions of the Old Serpent.
“Above all, therefore, you ought to
understand the deception of the old serpent764
| 764 [Comp. book ii. 45.
In Homily X. 10, etc., the influence of the serpent is spoken of, but
the discourse here is much fuller. There is, however, a general
agreement in outline between chaps. 17–22 here and Homily X.
10–21.—R.] |
and his cunning suggestions, who deceives you as it were by prudence,
and as by a sort of reason creeps through your senses; and beginning at
the head, he glides through your inner marrow, accounting the deceiving
of you a great gain. Therefore he insinuates into your minds
opinions of gods of whatsoever kinds, only that he may withdraw you
from the faith of one God knowing that your sin is his comfort.
For he, for his wickedness, was condemned from the beginning to eat
dust, for that he caused to be again resolved into dust him who had
been taken from the dust, even till the time when your souls shall be
restored, being brought through the fire; as we shall instruct you more
fully at another time. From him, therefore, proceed all the
errors and doubts, by which you are driven from the faith and belief of
one God.
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