The mythic memory of those events and projected costs might serve to endow Paul’s words with new meaning: “Be not overcome of evil.”6 Paul’s fear may have been, not that we as disciples would fall prey to the allure of evil, but that as compassionate spectators we would fall prey to the weight of evil, and turn to despair, hopelessness, or bitterness. This is why Julian of Norwich so compassionately counseled, “For it is [Satan’s] meaning to make us so heavy and so sorry in this that we should forget the blessed beholding of our everlasting friend.”7
