But this kind goes not out but by prayer and fasting.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Mor., pref. c. 2: The mustard-seed, unless it be bruised, does not give out its qualities, so if persecution fall upon a holy man, straightway what had seemed weak and contemptible in him is roused into the heat and fervour of virtue.