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29 Oct 2019

Satanic Possession



Anania, cur tentavit Satanas cor tuum?

In alia translatione, juxta Graecum Exemplar, ita legitur: Anania, quare implevit Satanas cor tuum?' Ubi notandum quod animam et mentem hominis nulla creatura juxta substaniam possit implere, sed creatrix Trinitas. Quia tantummodo secundum operationem et voluntatis instinctum, animus de his quae creata sunt impletur. Implet enim Satanas mentem alicujus, et principale cordis, non quidem ingrediens in eum et in sensum ejus, atque, ut ita dicam, aditum cordis introiens, siquidem haec potestas solius divinitatis est, sed quasi callidus quidam et nequam ac fallax fraudulentusque deceptor, in eos animam humanam malitiae affectus trahens per cogitationes et incentiva vitiorum, quibus ipse plenus est. Implevit ergo Satanas cor Ananiae, non ipse intrando, sed suae malitiae virus inserendo.


Sanctus Beda,Super Acta Apostolorum Expositio, Caput IV

Source:  Migne PL 92 954C-D
Ananias, how is it that Satan has tempted your heart? 1

In another translation, from the Greek, it reads: 'Ananias why has Satan filled your heart?' Where it should be noted that the soul and mind of a man no created thing, according to its substance, is able to fill, but only the creative Trinity. Since only according to the operation and instinct of the will is the soul filled with those things which are created. Satan, then, fills the mind of a man, and the chamber of the heart, not by entering into his mind, and, I might say, the sanctuary of the heart, for this is the power of the Divine alone, but, since he is a clever and wicked and lying and fraudulent deceiver, it is by the thoughts of and the allures of vices that he draws the human soul into a wicked state, and by which a man is filled. Satan, then, filled the heart of Ananias, not by entering into him, but by implanting in him the venom of wickedness.


Saint Bede, from the Commentary on the Acts of The Apostles, Chap 4


1 Acts 5.3

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