Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knows not.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
“Strangers have devoured his strength, and he has known it not.” “Strangers” is usually understood to be apostate angels, who devour our strength when they consume the virtue of the mind by perverting it. Ephraim endured both and did not know it, because through the temptation of malignant spirits he both lost the strength of his mind and did not understand that he had lost it. .
