“When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted but put up with it in courage, saying, "They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord." Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you will drive them away from you, and courage will compass you round about, and th…”
Pachomius the Great, 4th c. — INSTRUCTIONS 9
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12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
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10All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
— Psalms 118:12 —
13Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
14The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.