say that their enemies are overcoming them by evil arts and that therefore they have to be overcome by those same arts; so they beg for victory from demons while despairing of God. Unhappy people, they know not what they do or what they say, for in their anxiety about their property they have forgotten religion and faith. Perhaps, indeed, they will not lose their property, but, what is more important, they have lost their souls. Holy Job says: If we have received good things from the hand of the