“But no one of us can suffer such a thing; but they themselves are punished by us, when, having entered into any one, they entreat us that they may go out slowly.  But some one will say perhaps, Even some of the worshippers of God fall under such sufferings.  I say that is impossible.  For he is a worshipper of God, of whom I speak, who is truly pious, not one who is such only in name, but who really performs the deeds of the law that has been given him.  If any one acts impiously, he is not pious; in like manner as, if he who is of another tribe keeps the law, he is a Jew; but he who does not keep it is a Greek.  For the Jew believes God and keeps the law, by which faith he removes also other sufferings, though like mountains and heavy.¹¹³⁰

1130 Matt. xvii. 20.

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