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Saturday, June 13, 2026

The Guise of Satan.

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." Matthew 4:1

     Satan must have come in some attractive disguise. Satan could not have come as Satan, as Apollyon to Bun- yan's Pilgrim, with horrible form and sulphurous and flaming breath; for then there would have been no temptation. He does not tempt us in that way, and Jesus was tempted like as we are." 

     He may have come as an angel of light, or perhaps as some traveler; or he suggested the temptations to his mind, as "the wicked ones whispcringly suggested many blasphemies to Christian in theValley of the Shadow of Death.

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