ACC ~ Luke 11 v23

SATAN IS NOT WITH JESUS

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: “He that is not with me,” he says, “is against me, and he that gathers not with me, scatters.” “For I,” he says, “have come to save every man from the hands of the devil and to deliver from his deceit those whom he had ensnared. I came to set the prisoners free, to give light to those in darkness, to raise up them that had fallen, to heal the broken-spirited, and to gather together the children of God who were scattered abroad. This was the object of my coming. Satan is not with me; on the contrary he is against me. He ventures to scatter those whom I have gathered and saved. How then can he, who wars against me and sets his wickedness in array against my purposes, give me power against himself? How is it not foolish even barely to imagine the possibility of such a thing as this?” COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 81. [1]

[1] CGSL 332**.

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