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Saint John Cassian and Abbas Serenus: Do the Wicked Ultimately Prosper? (Saint John Cassian)

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How we ought not to despise those who are delivered up to unclean spirits. It’s clear that we ought not to hate or despise those whom we see to be delivered up to various temptations or to spirits of evil, because we ought firmly to hold on to these two points: first, that no-one can be tempted at all without God’s permission; and secondly that all things which are brought upon us by God, whether they seem to us at the time to be sad or joyful, are allowed for our advantage, as if by a most kind father and most compassionate physician, and that therefore we are, as it were, given into the charge of mentors. We’re humbled so that, ...

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