Wise ones know that unclean evil spirits cannot reside in places "swept clean" and "adorned." Evil spirits seek places where they can comfortably remain in wickedness. (107) Evil spirits operate through a wicked human host but in the vicinity of a righteous one. Evil spirits do this so that they may induce the wicked human host to fabricate a situation to cause the righteous one to sin, that through some weakness they may corrupt and operate within the formerly righteous one. But the destiny of all evil spirits and their wicked human hosts has been decided: The "seven torments". (108)
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