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Prayer to the Holy SpiritJohn Chrysostom · PG 64
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Prayer to the Holy Spirit

John Chrysostom · PG 64 · cols 1064–1066 · machine translation (AI, from the page scans)

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world to save it, and by his own authoritative power cast you down from heaven, and showed you to be utterly powerless. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who said to the sea: “Be silent, be still,” and at his command it was immediately calmed. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who with immaculate spittle made clay, and fashioned the missing limb for the man blind from birth, and granted him sight. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who by his word made the daughter of the synagogue leader live, and snatched the widow’s son from the jaws of death, and restored him whole and sound to his own mother. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who presented Lazarus, who had been dead four days, B from among the dead, uncorrupted as if he had not died, and spotless, to the amazement of the many. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who through the slap received in the face abolished the curse, and through the wound in his immaculate side extinguished the flaming sword guarding paradise. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who through the spitting upon his own venerable countenance wiped away every tear from every face. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who fixed the cross as a foundation and salvation for the world, but for a fall for you and all the angels under you. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who gave forth a voice upon his cross, and the veil of the temple was torn, and the rocks were rent, and the tombs were opened, and the dead from of old arose. The Lord rebukes you, O devil, who by death slew death, and by his rising granted life to men. C May the Lord rebuke you, O devil, who descended into Hades, and shook its monuments, and freed all the prisoners held within it, and recalled them to himself; whom the gatekeepers seeing, they shuddered, and in the anguish of Hades they fled and hid themselves. May the Lord rebuke you, O devil, Christ our God, who rose from the dead and granted his resurrection to all. May the Lord rebuke you, O devil, who ascended in glory into the heavens to his Father, and sits on the throne of glory at the right hand of the Majesty. May the Lord rebuke you, O devil, who shall come again with glory upon the clouds of heaven, with his holy angels, to judge the living and the dead. May the Lord rebuke you, O devil, who prepared for you the unquenchable fire, the undying worm, and the outer darkness for eternal punishment. May the Lord rebuke you, O devil, whom everything shudders before and trembles from the face of his power, for the wrath of his threat against you is unbearable. The Lord himself rebukes you, O devil, through his terrible name: D shudder, tremble, fear, depart, be destroyed, be driven away, you who fell from heaven, and with you all the evil spirits: any spirit of uncleanness, spirit of wickedness, spirit nocturnal and diurnal, meridional and vespertinal; spirit of midnight, spirit of phantasm, spirit of interception, whether terrestrial or aquatic, whether in groves, or in reeds, or in ravines, or in

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