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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza
Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913
Chapter 89
On whom the divine justice came quickly. For after she had said many vain things for many hours and spoken the customary blasphemies against the Lord and God of all, Saint Porphyry, being moved by divine zeal, when he saw him that comprehendeth all things both seen and unseen blasphemed by a woman possessed of the devil and submitting herself unto his will, gave forth his sentence against her, saying: ‘God, who made all things, who alone is eternal, having neither beginning nor ending, who is glorified in trinity, shall smite thy tongue and muzzle thy mouth, that thou mayst not speak evil things.’