The answer
St. John Chrysostom says, “The day before yesterday we set on foot our sermon concerning the Devil … But others, the day before yesterday while these matters were being set on foot here, took their places in the theatre, and were looking on at the Devil’s show. They were taking part in lascivious songs; you were having a share in spiritual music. They were eating of the Devil’s garbage: you were feeding on spiritual unguents. Who decoyed them? Who separated them from the sacred flock? … The Devil is wicked; I grant this indeed, but he is wicked for himself not towards us if we are wary. For the nature of wickedness is of this kind. It is destructive only to those who hold on to it.”654
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
654 St. John Chrysostom, Three Homilies on the Power of Man to Resist the Devil 3.1 (NPNF I/9:191) amended.