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Fragments on Proverbs

24.76.1 7. Let us fill our houses with spoils. Of Eusebius. The demons despoil those whom they conquer, taking from them the full armor of God, that is 24.78 the helmet and breastplate and the sword of the spirit; and their houses are the assemblies of the wicked, which they wish to fill with spoils, that is, of the fruits which they seize from the just; but how can you also call spoils things not taken by the law of war,

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Fragmenta in proverbia

24.76.1 ζʹ. Πλήσωμεν δὲ οἴκους ἡμετέρους σκύλων Εὐσεβίου. Σκυλεύουσιν οὓς νικῶσιν οἱ δαίμονες, λαμ- βάνοντες ἀπ' αὐτῶν τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ πανοπλίαν, ἤγουν 24.78 τὴν περικεφαλαίαν καὶ θώρακα καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν τοῦ πνεύματος· οἶκοι δὲ αὐτῶν αἱ τῶν κακούργων ἐκκλησίαι, ἃς καὶ ἐμπλῆσαι βούλωνται σκύλων, ἤτοι καρπῶν ὧν ἐκ τῶν δικαίων ἁρπάζουσι· πῶς δὲ καὶ σκῦλα προσαγορεύεις τὰ μὴ πολέμου νόμῳ ληφθέντα,