“THE devil comes and tempts all the servants of God. Those who are strong in the faith resist him and he goes away from them, because he cannot find entrance. So, goes then to the empty and, finding an entrance, he goes into them. Thus he accomplishes in them whatever he pleases and makes them his slaves.” ~Shephard of Hermas, Mandate 12, 5, 4. (2nd cent.)
“THE devil rules over lovers of temporal goods belonging to this visible world, not because he is lord of this world, but because he is ruler of those covetous desires by which we long for all that passes away.” ~St. Augustine: De Agone Christiano, 1, 1.
“FOR there is more than one way of sacrificing to the fallen angels.” ~St. Augustine: Confessions, 1, 17.
“THE devil rules over lovers of temporal goods belonging to this visible world, not because he is lord of this world, but because he is ruler of those covetous desires by which we long for all that passes away.” ~St. Augustine: De Agone Christiano, 1, 1.
“FOR there is more than one way of sacrificing to the fallen angels.” ~St. Augustine: Confessions, 1, 17.
Temptations of St. Jerome, by Giorgio Vasari.
Oil on wood, 1541; Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
Oil on wood, 1541; Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.