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Desert Fathers, on Jas 4:7
Desert Fathers · c. A.D. 500
Jas 4:7 · Douay-Rheims
“Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.”
On this verse:
“A brother came to Poemen and said to him, 'Many thoughts come into my mind and put me in danger.' He sent him out into the open air, and said, 'Open your lungs and do not breathe.' He replied, 'I can't do that.' Then he said to him: 'Just as you can't stop air coming into your lungs, so you can't stop thoughts coming into your mind. Your part is to resist them.'”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.