Writing to Marcellus Athansius wrote
Let each one, therefore, who recites the Psalms have a sure hope that through
them God will speedily give ear to those who are in need. For if a man be in
trouble when he says them, great comfort will he find in them; if he be tempted
or persecuted, he will find himself abler to stand the test and will experience
the protection of the Lord, Who always defends those who say these words. By
them too a man will overthrow the devil and put the fiends to flight. If he have
sinned, when he uses them he will repent; if he have not sinned, he will find
himself rejoicing that he is stretching out towards the things that are before
and, so wrestling, in the power of the Psalms he will prevail. Never will such a
man be shaken from the truth, but those who try to trick and lead him into error
he will refute; and it is no human teacher who promises us this, but the Divine
Scripture itself.
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