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Satan dwells sensually in a person when he inhabits his body with his being and torments his soul and body. Thus, one demon can live in a person, and many demons can live. Then the person is called mad. From the Gospel we see that the Lord healed those who were demonized, and the Lord’s disciples also healed them, casting out demons from people in the name of the Lord. Satan abides morally in a person when a person becomes an executor of the will of the devil. Thus, “Satan entered into Judas Iscariot” (John 13:27), that is, he took possession of his mind and will, and united with him in spirit. In this position were and are all those who do not believe in Christ, just as the holy Apostle Paul says to Christians who converted to Christianity from paganism: “and you, dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you once lived, according to the course of this world, according to the will of the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived according to our carnal lusts, fulfilling the desires of the flesh. and thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, like others” (Eph. 2:1-3). In this position are found, more or less, depending on the degree of sinfulness, those who were baptized into Christ, but were alienated from Him by sins. This is how the holy fathers understand the words of Christ about the return of the devil with the other seven fiercest spirits to the spiritual church from which the Holy Spirit has departed (see Matthew 12:43–45). 13 The spirits that have entered in this way are again driven out by the Jesus Prayer while living in constant and thorough repentance. Let's undertake a feat that will save us! Let us take care to drive out the spirits that have entered us due to our negligence, through the Jesus Prayer. According to the explanation of Blessed Theophylact. Blagovestnik. You might be interested in: