and in another hymn that is chanted on the second Friday of Easter:

“Our boast is in the cross, through which the dominion of death was annulled, and through which we have come to safety and deliverance.”

Likewise, one of the canticles proclaims:

“By the prayers of our Lord Jesus Christ, death has been abolished, Satan’s temptations have been extinguished, and every trace of them erased.”

So tell me: which sin, exactly, has been abolished? Which of Satan’s temptations has been extinguished? Or what forbidden practice and wrongdoing that people engaged in before his coming has changed in the least?

He said:

If sophistry finds its way even into matters that everyone claims to grasp and explain, then in issues that are already obscure—and are further distorted by the interpretations those interpreters have contrived—it will be even more pervasive.

Now, since you have accepted this patent impossibility—so obvious that even children can see through it—you will be all the more ready to accept impossibilities greater still. Yet your own Gospel contradicts this very claim, for the Messiah says in it:

“Many will say to Me on the Day of Resurrection, ‘O our Master, was it not in Your name that we cast out Satan?’

Then I shall say,

‘Begone from Me, you wicked, misguided ones; I never knew you.’”

This, then, is contrary to the statement