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Ibid. 'He hath rushed upon me like a giant.' 21. Those who do not resist experience him as a giant fighting with them.—For the enemy is easily resisted if one does not for long consent to him, whether in many falls or in one. But if the soul has grown accustomed to be subject to his persuasions, the more frequently it subjects itself to him, the more intolerable it makes him to itself, so that it cannot resist him; for indeed the malignant adversary fights against this soul—already conquered by evil habit—as it were after the manner of a giant. Yet nevertheless holy Church very often recalls the minds of the faithful to penance even after guilt has been committed, and by the virtue of voluntary affliction cleanses the sins of their deeds. Whence it is well subjoined: