God did this so that whenever the Devil saw the matters of piety not diminishing, despite the shepherds’ removal, nor the word of the message being extinguished, but rather growing, he might learn through experience—both he himself and those who serve him in these matters—that our affairs are not human, but that the basis of our teaching has its root above in heaven, and it is God who guides the Churches in every respect, and that it isn’t possible for the individual who fights God to ever overcome Him.—St. John Chrysostom, On the Holy Martyr Ignatius, par. 12.
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