Diabolus
The Devil's Empty Promise
Diabolus boasts of his power and offers false gifts to those who follow him, while exposing his own ignorance of his true nature.
What is this power, that there is no one except God? But I say that whoever wants to follow me and my will — I'll give them everything. As for you, you have nothing you can give your followers, because you yourselves don't even know what you are.
Read the original Latin
Que est hec Potestas, quod nullus sit preter deum? Ego autem dico, qui voluerit me et voluntatem meam sequi, dabo illi omnia. Tu vero, tuis sequacibus nichil habes quod dare possis, quia etiam vos omnes nescitis quid sitis.
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