Sickness And Healing

Et vidi, et ecce ventus turbinis veniebat ab Aquilone... Propheta ergo ea quae essent in finem ventura conspiciens, venire ab Aquilone ventum turbinis vidit, quia in extremo saeculi mentes hominum torporis sui frigore malignus spiritus gravius occupabit. Unde scriptum est: Vae terrae et mari, quia descendit diabolus ad vos habens iram magnam, sciens quia modicum tempus habet. Antiquus quippe adversarius insidiarum suarum molimina in humanis mentibus gravius exaggeravit. Contra cujus excrescentem superbiam incarnati manifestata est humilitas Dei: atque ut humanum genus a suo languore sanaret, tunc magna apparuit potentia medici, cum languor crevit aegroti. Sanctus Gregorius Magnus, In Ezechielem Prophetam, Liber Primus, Homilia II Source: Migne PL 76.799d-800a

I looked and, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north... 1 Therefore the prophet, looking upon those things which shall come at the end, sees the storm wind coming from the north, because at the end of the ages the wicked spirit shall heavily occupy the minds of men with the frozen nature of his torpor, whence it is written, 'Woe to you land and sea, because the devil falls upon you in great anger, knowing that he has but a little time.' 2 The ancient adversary has heaped up a great mass of his snares in human minds, against which excrescence of pride the humility of God was made manifest in the Incarnation, even so that the human race might be healed of its sickness, for then when sluggishness had led to sickness did the great power of the physician appear. Saint Gregory the Great, On the Prophet Ezekiel, Book 1, from Homily 2 1 Ezek 1.4 2 Apoc 12.12