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Some of them would get converted again and again, only to be overcome by the tempter. Their characters had been so weakened by indulging in sin and giving way to their appetites that it seemed hard for them to become established. It took a great deal of patience and labor to get any of them established. The religious career of many of them was very brief, but others struggled on for a long time.
Right has its own terror, but there is at least courage in being right, against your desires." He was talking continuously, but only at times did the wind from the uproar sweep his fervent words to her. "Christ had His own conflict with Himself. What had become of us had He listened to the tempter in the wilderness, or failed to accept the cup in the Garden of Gethsemane!
Have you seen Glossin? 'No, replied Meg Merrilies; 'you've missed your blow, ye blood- spiller! and ye have nothing to expect from the tempter. 'Hagel! exclaimed the ruffian, 'if I had him but by the throat! And what am I to do then? 'Do? answered the gipsy; 'die like a man, or be hanged like a dog! 'Hanged, ye hag of Satan! The hemp's not sown that shall hang me.
In a moment, Andrew perceived that his victor-wrestler his crony in Lucky Hewitt's the tempter of his Janet the man whom he had felled with a blow, and whose blood he had drawn and the King of Scotland, was one and the same person. "Guid gracious!" exclaimed Andrew, "I'm a done man!" "Seize him!" said the king.
The affiance of Jane and Edward Rochester, their attempted marriage, the wild temptation of Jane, her fierce rebuff of the tempter, his despair and remorse, her agony and flight all are consummate in conception, marred here and there as they are in details by the blue fire and conventional imprecations of the stage. The concluding chapters of the book, when Jane finally rejects St.
At Hell gates, where he dallies in speech with his leman Sin to gain a passage from the lower World, Satan is "the subtle Fiend," in the garden of Paradise he is "the Tempter" and "the Enemy of Mankind," putting his fraud upon Eve he is the "wily Adder," leading her in full course to the tree he is "the dire Snake," springing to his natural height before the astonished gaze of the cherubs he is "the grisly King."
I shall become Buddha and make all the world exult with joy." The tempter has to own that his reign is over. Jesus answers the same temptation in the words: "Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. This description of the parallelism might be extended to many other points with the same result.
None but the advanced occultist who has known what it was to be tempted to use his mysterious powers to satisfy his personal wants, can appreciate the nature of the struggle through which Jesus passed, and from which He emerged victorious. And like the occult Master that He was, He summoned His Inner Forces and beat off the Tempter.
'What do you think of it? he ended. A considering grunt was the only answer. 'Come now, urged Sir James. 'Tempter! 'You will go down? There was a brief pause. 'Are you there? said Sir James. 'Look here, Molloy, the voice broke out querulously, 'the thing may be a case for me, or it may not. We can't possibly tell. It may be a mystery; it may be as simple as bread and cheese.
In church, to nod from the old seats of the Schoppers to all those common folk as my nearest kin, to meet the lute-player among my own people, teaching the lads and maids their music, and to greet him as dear grandfather, to see my brethren and sisters-in-law busy in the clerks' chambers or work-shops all this I say is bitter to the taste; and yet more when the tempter on the other side shows the gaudy young gentleman the very joys dearest to his courtly spirit.
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