But the Lord is long-suffering, and does not reduce to nothing him who in his ignorance dares [to utter] such words, but meekly replies, "Get thee hence, Satan." ^ He does not say, " Get thee behind Afc," for it is not possible that he should be converted ; but, " Begone, Satan," to the course which thou hast chosen. " Begone " to those things to which, through thy malevo- lence, thou hast been called. For I know Who I am, and by Whom I have been sent, and Whom it behoves Me to worship. For " thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only Shalt thou serve." 7 J know the one [God] ; I am acquainted with the only [Lord] from whom thou hast become an apostate. I am not an ene-