“Now as for the Lord's saying: "Satan cannot drive out Satan," lest perhaps anyone using the name of some of the lowest powers when driving out a demon should think this opinion of the Lord's to be false, let him understand the point of this saying: Satan does spare the body or the senses of the body, but he tempts the…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — EIGHTY-THREE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, QUESTION 79.2
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23And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
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21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
22And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
— Mark 3:23 —
24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.