Luke 4:9-13 And in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.… The devil sees that against God's children oftentimes he can have no other advantage, than that which they had against Daniel (Daniel 6.) in the law of his God, in the graces of God's Spirit, and therefore he dyes his bad clothes in good colours, and paints the foul faces of sin with the colours of graces and virtues to deceive us; as here he presents presumption to Christ under the colour and in the habit of faith; and so now covetousness, of frugality and good husbandry; drunkenness and carousing of healths, of good fellowship; sottish sloth, of quietness (Ecclesiastes 4:3), unlawful sports both in regard of the nature of the games, as dice. What need have we not to be carried away with everything that hath a show of goodness, or of indifferency, but to bring these painted strumpets of the devil to the light, yea, and to the heat of the Word of God, and then their painting shall melt away, and we shall see their beauty came only out of the devil's box? (D. Dyke.) Parallel Verses KJV: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.WEB: and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'" |
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