"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel...Thus is the Devil ever God's ape."
— Martin Luther

January 1, 1970

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67. Compare "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part III, section 4, member 1, subsection 1