St. Augustine, Sermons on the New Testament, Sermon 1: “For how many, my brethren, do you think have this day been in hesitation whether they would go here or there? And they who in this hesitation, turning their thoughts to Christ, have run to the church, have overcome, not any man, but the devil himself, him that hunts after the souls of the whole world. But they who in that hesitation have chosen rather to run to the amphitheatre, have assuredly been overcome by him whom the others overcame—overcame in Him who says, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. For the Captain suffered Himself to be tried, only that He might teach His soldiers to fight.”