When the Romans defeated the Syrian king Antiochus, they forced him, among other things, to hand over half of his fleet to them. Antiochus was glad that the other half would stay. But when the time came to apply this term, he saw with a painful surprise the Romans sawing all his ships in the middle! In this cruel way the victors humiliated the defeated king and destroyed him completely.
That is why Saint Ephraim the Syrian says:
"When you give half of your soul to the devil, he's useless the other half…".
Let us, therefore, surrender our soul entirely to the Lord !!!
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