Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...

+ Thanks be to God who has confined the greatness of the last tribulation to a
few day; for He says, "But for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."
(St. Matthew 24:22) and the Antichrist shall reign only three and a half years.
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem
+ For if you do not believe in Christ, much more ought you not believe in the
Antichrist.
- St. John Chrysostom
+ Truly, Jesus Christ will extinguish by His presence the last persecution which
is to be made by the Antichrist.
- St. Augustine
+ Antichrist is coming but above him comes Christ also.
- St. Cyprian
+ The enemy is more to be feared and to be guarded against when he creeps
upon us in secret. When deceiving by the appearance of peace, he steals
forward by hidden approaches. He behaves as he is named-the serpent.
- St. Cyprian
+ Christ's adversary, the great seducer, does not persecute and attack any
except Christ's camp and soldiers; heretics, once prostrated and made his own,
he despises and passes by. He seeks to cast down those whom he sees are
still standing.
- St. Cyprian
+ The reason God has delayed the destruction of Satan is His regard for the
human race. For God foreknows that some are to be saved by repentance,
some that are perhaps not yet born.
- St. Justin the Martyr
+ The more simple among believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are of the opinion
that if there were no Devil, no single human being would go astray. We
however, do not hold this opinion, taking into account those sins that originate
as a necessary consequence of our bodily constitution.
- Origen
+ Let us not wait for the repentance of Satan, for this is a vain anticipation and
one that will drag us into the pits of hell.
- Sf. Jerome
+ None of the demons possess flesh. Their structure is spiritual, like that of fire
or air. And only by those whom the Spirit of God dwells in and fortifies are the
bodies of demons easily seen, not at all by others.
- Tatian
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