Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
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Bede
AD 735
This is the sole refuge against all enemies of the church—namely, prayer to God and the zeal of teachers, who, meditating day and night on his law, fortify the hearts of the faithful against the attacks of the devil and his soldiers by preaching, consoling and exhorting.
