Terror of Demons

Despite the fact that Satan seduced Eve and lured Adam into the same sin, God not only gave us a Redeemer who by dying defeated death, but in the person of the Woman, the Mother of God, Mary ever-Virgin, who crushed in herself and the whole human race the head of the serpent, he lent us an indefatigable advocate before his Son, Our God, an invincible litigant for the most obdurate sinners. It is because of this that she is called "the Terror of demons," for it is impossible for the devil to cause a man to perish as long as the latter has recourse to the help of the Theotokos.