being found, and never being separated from [the] [God] of all. The devil once laughed a broad laugh against human nature, and rejoiced in our misfortunes as feasts. But his laughter was for three days; but his lament is eternal; and a broad laugh prepared for him a broader lament, an unceasing tear, an inconsolable wailing; a dart in the heart. This dart the Commander forged against the enemy in the virginal furnace, just as he willed, and as he wished, through fire; and having tempered it by the energy of the invincible divinity, and having dipped it in the water of the pure baptism, and having sharpened it by the impassible passions, and having polished it through the mystical resurrection; through himself with his whole army he put the fiend to death. What speech, then, could describe either our joy or his misfortune? For he who was once an archangel, is now the devil; he who once dwelt in the heavens, is now seen as a serpent crawling on the earth; he who once rejoiced with the cherubim, is now shut up in the prison of the swine, suffering; whom we shall rout, having resolved on things contrary to his purpose; by the grace and loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory and the power unto the ages of ages, Amen.

εὑρισκόμενος, καὶ [τοῦ] τῶν ὅλων [Θεοῦ] μηδέποτε χωριζόμενος. Ἐγέλα ποτὲ πλατὺν κατὰ τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως ὁ διάβολος γέλωτα, καὶ ταῖς συμφοραῖς ἡμῶν ἑορταῖς ἐπευφραίνεται. Ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν γέλως τριήμερος· ὁ δὲ θρῆνος αἰώνιος· καὶ πλατὺς γέλως θρῆνον αὐτῷ πλατύτερον κατεσκεύασεν, δάκρυον ἀδιάλειπτον, κλαυθμὸν ἀπαρηγόρητον· βέλος ἐγκάρδιον. Τοῦτο τὸ βέλος ἐν τῇ παρθενικῇ καμίνῳ, οἷον ἠθέλησεν, καὶ ὡς ἠθέλησεν, διὰ πυρὸς κατὰ τοῦ ἐχθροῦ ὁ πολεμάρχης ἐχάλκευσεν· καὶ στομώσας τῇ ἐνεργείᾳ τῆς ἀηττήτου θεότητος, καὶ βάψας τῷ ὕδατι τοῦ ἀχράντου βαπτίσματος, καὶ ἀκονήσας τοῖς ἀπαθέσι παθήμασιν, καὶ στιλβώσας διὰ τῆς μυστικῆς ἀναστάσεως· δι' ἑαυτοῦ πανστρατιᾷ τὸν ἀλάστορα ἐθανάτωσε. Ποῖος οὖν λόγος ἢ τὴν ἡμετέραν χαρὰν ἢ τὴν ἐκείνου συμφορὰν διηγήσηται; Ὁ γὰρ ποτὲ ἀρχάγγελος, νῦν διάβολος· ὁ ποτὲ ἐν οὐρανοῖς διαιτώμενος, νῦν ὡς ὄφις ἐπὶ γῆς θεωρεῖται συρόμενος· ὁ ποτὲ μετὰ τῶν χερουβὶμ ἀγαλλόμενος, νῦν ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ τῶν χοίρων ἐγκέκλεισται ὀδυνόμενος· ὅνπερ τροπωσόμεθα ἐναντία τῆς ἐκείνου φρονήσαντες προαιρέσεως· χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων, Ἀμήν.