"If after baptism the persecutor and tempter of the light ... wrestle against you to a fall through avarice, showing you all the Kingdoms at one instant and in the twinkling of an eye, as belonging to himself, and demand your worship, despise him as a beggar. Say to him relying on the Seal [of Baptism], I am myself the Image of God; I have not yet been cast down from the heavenly Glory, as you were through your pride; I have put on Christ; I have been transformed into Christ by Baptism; worship thou me. Well do I know that he will depart, defeated and put to shame by this... Such blessings does the laver bestow on those who apprehend it."
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St. Gregory of Nazianzus, The Oration On Holy Baptism, X.
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