zealous use of prayer will be taken prisoner by frightful and ferocious temptations.” Then he spoke: “Be vigilant in spirit and do not grow weary! Remember what the apostle said: The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.30 You now know through experience that no testing is permitted beyond an individual’s strength, but with the testing God will also provide the way out.31 Reliance on this divine help strengthened and guided the holy ascetics to ardor and zeal, for they not
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