Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 80
80. That the devil has no power against man unless God have allowed it.
In the Gospel according to John: “Jesus said, Thou couldest have no power against me, unless it were given thee from above.”[1] Also in the third of Kings: “And God stirred up Satan against Solomon himself.”[2] Also in Job, first of all God permitted, and then it was allowed to the devil; and in the Gospel, the Lord first permitted, by saying to Judas, “What thou doest, do quickly.”[3] Also in Solomon, in the Proverbs: “The heart of the king is in God’s hand.”[4]