Word: tempters
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...chapter a day keeps the tempter away" was the bright promise of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Council of Churches, announcing simultaneous Bible-reading revivals to run throughout January and February in all U. S. evangelical churches. Beginning with the kindly gospel of Physician-Saint Luke, readers will pass on to the marvels of The Acts, the two books invoked...
...regard the serpent in the Garden of Eden as a symbol of the devil. The first mention of Satan is made in Job, which, it is claimed, was written at the time of the captivity. In this book Satan is still an angel and has not yet become a tempter. The next mention of him is in Zechariah; and in Chronicles the idea of him is complete. The introduction of the idea of a devil made the grand ruler more exalted. After that all evil deeds were represented as the work of the devil and the divine Being was surrounded...
...Lyman Abbott at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon taking his text from the first few verses of the fourth chapter of St. Matthew made a most forcible New Year's address. He said, who of us has not heard this voice of the tempter? To some just starting out in life it is the voice of pleasure, of self, of indulgence; to others the voice of liberty and independence, and to others still the voice of success. To the first the tempter says now is the time, pleasure like champagne, drink it quick when you can best appreciate...
Opposed to this voice of the tempter is the other voice, heard throughout the Bible. It says, God is law, and law is God. True happiness is not reached by self-service but by self-sacrifice. Success does not consist of so much power or so much wealth. Alexander listened to the tempter's voice and died in a drunken bout at thirty-three. It brought Caesar the assassin's knife, and gave Napoleon St. Helena. Jay Gould died hating the whole world and hated...
...with all the gods, and is afterwards overcome by one of their number. The sacred tree plays a large part in the Assyrian sculpture and carvings, and so do the winged composite creatures answering to the Hebrew cherubim; but the account of a seduction of man by a tempter has not yet come to light. Corresponding to the ten antediluvian patriarchs of Genesis, the Babylonians believed in ten kings whose reign had extended over a fabulous period of time. The deluge story, which is an episode in the national epic, is too similar to the version in Genesis...