Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.* For it was not with the Godhead, which he knew notk, that the devil engaged in warfare, for he would not have ventured on this; (therefore he said, If Thou art the Son of God;*) but with man, whom he had long before been able to seduce, and from that time had directed against all men the operations of his wickedness. And since Adam’s soul was detained under sentence of death, and was continually crying out to its Lord, and those who had been well-pleasing