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| Chapter XXIII. Of the clause: “Lead us not into temptation.“
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Chapter XXIII.
Of the clause: “Lead us not into
temptation.”
Next there follows:
“And lead us not into temptation,” on which there arises no
unimportant question, for if we pray that we may not be suffered to be
tempted, how then will our power of endurance be proved, according to
this text: “Every one who is not tempted is not
proved;”1616
and again:
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation?”1617
The clause then, “Lead us not into
temptation,” does not mean this; viz., do not permit us ever to
be tempted, but do not permit us when we fall into temptation to be
overcome. For Job was tempted, but was not led into temptation. For he
did not ascribe folly to God nor blasphemy, nor with impious mouth did
he yield to that wish of the tempter toward which he was drawn. Abraham
was tempted, Joseph was tempted, but neither of them was led into
temptation for neither of them yielded his consent to the tempter. Next
there follows: “But deliver us from evil,” i.e., do not
suffer us to be tempted by the devil above that we
are able, but “make with the
temptation a way also of escape that we may be able to bear
it.”1618
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