For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
That is, oftentimes. This also is a mark of great lowliness of mind, his not concealing that he could not bear those insidious plottings, that he fainted under them and was reduced to pray for deliverance.
