2018. It is a practice most familiar to him, as it is to evil spirits also, to constantly persecute believers, or constantly to accuse, blaspheme, and do them wrongs, so far as it is permitted. Yet the believers never do him any harm. He complains, as he has just now done, at being so under attack by those having true faith. But he was told in reply that they never attack him, while he, on the other hand, attacks and accuses them at every moment. On this he is ruminating, not knowing what to say, because he acknowledges it. So he is the cause of his own harm. 1748, 20 May.