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“For the adversary having been proved ineffective in open persecutions now exercises a hidden skill in doing cruel hurt, in order to overthrow by the stumbling-block of pleasure those whom he could not strike with the blow of affliction. . .he grieves at the shedding of Christian blood being forbidden, and attacks the mode of life of those whose death he cannot compass.” — St. Gregory the Great, Homily 36