LETTER VIII. To Demophilus, Therapeutes. About minding ones own business, and kindness. SECTION I. Part 5 Yea, further, what were those domineering demons , who were truly proclaiming the Lord Jesus God? But every one who meddles with other peoples business, is outlawed by the Word of God; and each one shall be in the rank of his own service, and alone the High Priest shall enter into the Holy of holies, and once only throughout the year, and this in the full legal hierarchical purification. And the priests encompass the holy things, and the Levites must not touch the holy things, lest they die. And Jehovah was angry with wrath at the rashness of Ozias, and Mariam becomes leprous, because she had presumed to lay down laws for the lawgiver. And the demons fastened on the sons of Sceva, and He says, I did not send them, yet they ran, and I spake not to them yet they prophesied. And the profane who sacrifices to me a calf, (is) as he who slays a dog, and to speak briefly, the all-perfect justice of Almighty God does not tolerate the disregarders of law, but whilst they are saying in Thy Name, we ourselves did many wonderful works, He retorts, And I know you not; go from Me all ye workers of lawlessness. So that it is not permissible, as the holy Oracles say, even to pursue things that are just, when not according to order, but each must keep to himself, and not meditate things too high and too deep for him, but contemplate alone things prescribed for him according to order. Letters of Dionysius The Areopagite.
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