this question seems at first glance to demand an affirmative answer, on closer examination it is not self-evident. Christ and Christ’s adversary the devil are mutually exclusive opponents, but in such a way that even the devil, unwillingly, must serve Christ, and, willing evil, must ever again do good, so that the kingdom of the devil is always only under the feet of Christ. Even if we understand by the kingdom of the devil the world that “lies in the evil one”—that is, the world that has fallen under
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