Forwarded from Heathens Begone (Pérez)
§ 7. HOW THE DEVIL IN HUMAN FORM FOUGHT WITH SAINT AEMILIAN
It happened that one day the enemy of the human race went out to the road of this athlete of the eternal King, addressing him these words. "If you want to know which one of us can do better, let's fight. He had not yet finished saying it when he grabbed the Saint, touching him visibly and bodily, and tiring him for a long time, so that he almost made him hesitate. But as soon as the Saint asked Jesus for help, the divine favor assured his hesitant steps, and at the point he chased away the apostate angel, who evaporated in the air.
If someone would consider this incredible, that is, that the devil, being a spirit, could be touched, apart from the mystical sense, explain how the divine pages that he fought with the angel refer to Jacob, even though he was an angel, well. What I say is that Satan did not need so much boldness to tempt the servant as to tempt the Lord, Millan as Christ, man as God, the creature as the Creator.
Translation of the source : http://www.vallenajerilla.com/berceo/braulio/braulio.htm
It happened that one day the enemy of the human race went out to the road of this athlete of the eternal King, addressing him these words. "If you want to know which one of us can do better, let's fight. He had not yet finished saying it when he grabbed the Saint, touching him visibly and bodily, and tiring him for a long time, so that he almost made him hesitate. But as soon as the Saint asked Jesus for help, the divine favor assured his hesitant steps, and at the point he chased away the apostate angel, who evaporated in the air.
If someone would consider this incredible, that is, that the devil, being a spirit, could be touched, apart from the mystical sense, explain how the divine pages that he fought with the angel refer to Jacob, even though he was an angel, well. What I say is that Satan did not need so much boldness to tempt the servant as to tempt the Lord, Millan as Christ, man as God, the creature as the Creator.
Translation of the source : http://www.vallenajerilla.com/berceo/braulio/braulio.htm
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