On the Power of Man to Resist the Devil

THE ARMOR OF ORTHODOXY

The devil and his demons thrive in the world, but no one can injure the man who does not injure himself.

The most eloquent of all the Fathers, Saint John Chrysostom’s preaching was based on Holy Scripture, whose honey he had gathered through much ascetical labor in solitude, contemplating the abyss of the mysteries of God, and battling against the devil and his demonic horde. From the grace of his experience of the warfare between man and the demons comes the powerful arsenal of these holy homilies showing Christians the way of salvation.