If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, leave not your post; for yielding pacifies great offences.
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Basil the Great
AD 379
He who sins gives place to the devil, taking no heed of him who said, “Do not give place to the devil,” or to Ecclesiastes, “If the spirit of him that has power ascends upon you, leave not your place.” Let us, then, who are in the Lord and who, as much as we are able, observe closely his wonders, so draw joy to our hearts from the contemplation of them. Homilies on the Psalms (Psalm ).