{"id":4902,"date":"2018-05-27T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2018-05-27T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T11:51:01","slug":"elder-epiphanios-on-the-devil-and-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4902","title":{"rendered":"Elder Epiphanios on the Devil and Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3tiaa\" data-offset-key=\"8jvqo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8jvqo-0-0\">&#8220;Any person whatsoever can be concentrated, even for hours, thinking of a certain problem or a certain matter\u2014 without his attention being distracted by anything else.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3tiaa\" data-offset-key=\"1sas6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1sas6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1sas6-0-0\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In earlier times also, when adding machines did not exist, accountants worked for eight hours doing additions without lifting their heads and without their mind wandering, even if a compressor was working next to them! Something analogous occurs with many students when they are occupied by their lessons. If, however, someone sets out to pray, then all the personal, family or business occupations project themselves before him and distract him. This is proof that the devil exists and (hat prayer burns him up. For this reason, he fights it.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3tiaa\" data-offset-key=\"8ive9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8ive9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3tiaa\" data-offset-key=\"8ive9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8ive9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8ive9-0-0\">Elder St Ephiphanios of Trizina<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3tiaa\" data-offset-key=\"a704h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a704h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a704h-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Counsels for Life\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a704h-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4903\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/291770.b-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/291770.b-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/291770.b.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a704h-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any person whatsoever can be concentrated, even for hours, thinking of a certain problem or a certain matter\u2014 without his attention being distracted by anything else. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}