For it is written

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

An evil soul producing holy witness

Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,

A deadly apple rotten at the heart."

Shakespeare.

"In religion

What damned error but some sober brow

Will bless it and approve it with a text,

Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"

Id.

to keep thee The quotation is from Psalms 91:11, but the tempter omits " in all thy ways," which would have defeated his object, since the "ways" referred to are only the ways of him "who dwelleth under the defence of the Most High." But, as the nextverse prophesies, Christ -trod upon the lion and adder" of Satanic temptation.

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