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| Chapter XI.—Continuation: audacity of Satan.
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Chapter XI.—Continuation: audacity of
Satan.
If,
therefore, thou art trodden down under the feet of the Lord, how dost
thou tempt Him that cannot be tempted, forgetting that precept of the
lawgiver, “Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God?”1346
Yea, thou even darest, most accursed one, to
appropriate the works of God to thyself, and to declare that the dominion
over these was delivered to thee.1347
And thou
dost set forth thine own fall as an example to the Lord, and dost promise
to give Him what is really His own, if He would fall down and worship
thee.1348
And how didst thou not shudder, O thou
spirit more wicked through thy malevolence than all other wicked spirits,
to utter such words against the Lord? Through thine appetite1349
wast thou overcome, and through thy vainglory wast thou brought
to dishonour: through avarice and ambition dost thou [now] draw on
[others] to ungodliness. Thou, O Belial, dragon, apostate, crooked
serpent, rebel against God, outcast from Christ, alien from the Holy
Spirit, exile from the ranks of the angels, reviler of the laws of God,
enemy of all that is lawful, who didst rise up against the first-formed
of men, and didst drive forth [from obedience to] the commandment [of
God] those who had in no respect injured thee; thou who didst raise up
against Abel the murderous Cain; thou who didst take arms against Job:
dost thou say to the Lord, “If Thou wilt fall down and worship
me?” Oh what audacity! Oh what madness! Thou runaway slave, thou
incorrigible1350
| 1350 Or,
“that always needs whipping.” | slave, dost thou
rebel against the good Lord? Dost thou say to so great a Lord, the God of
all that either the mind or the senses can perceive, “If Thou wilt
fall down and worship me?”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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