devil cease to bless the Lord with a grateful faith even in the midst of adversity. His house was open to anyone who came; no widow departed with an empty stomach, no blind person was not guided by him as a companion, no lame one was not carried by him as a support, no one devoid of the help of the very powerful was not protected by him as a defender. ‘Those who wish to please God should do these things,’ he said. And while he thus goes through the evidence of all good men, he always imitated the