How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.
Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil--
He who lives sinfully belongs to the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the first. It was for this that the Son of God appeared, that he might undo the Devil's work.
You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.