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 suggested to me some suspicion, especially as he appeared to me in two forms. And with this in my thoughts, I fell asleep. In that night he came in to me and made me share in his filthy intercourse. I saw him also when it was day, and fled from him. According to his wont, he came at night and abused me. And now as thou seest me, I have been tormented by him five years, and he has not departed from me. But I know and am persuaded that even demons and spirits and monsters are subject to thee, and tremble at thy prayer. Pray, then, for me, and drive away from me the demon, that torments me continually, that I also may become free, and may be brought to my own kind, and receive the gift which has been granted to my kindred."

44. And the apostle said, "O irrepressible wickedness! O shamelessness of the enemy! O jealous one that is never at rest! O ugly one who subjects the beautiful ones! O many-formed one—he appears as he wishes, but his nature cannot be changed—! O crafty and perfidious! O bitter tree, whose fruits are like it! O traducer, fighting over that which is not his! O deceit which uses impudence! O wickedness that creeps like a serpent and is related to it!" And when the apostle had thus spoken, the fiend stood before him, no one seeing him but the apostle and the woman, and said in the hearing of all with a very loud voice:

45. "What have we to do with thee, apostle of the Most High? What have we to do with thee, servant of Jesus Christ? What have we to do with