Tempter

Our enemy the devil, the tempter is at the business of weakening and destroying believers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Christ; the tempter is foiled and bruised under their feet. ❋ Unknown (1721)

There are right-hand and left-hand errors, extremes on each side virtue; the tempter is busy courting us into the by-paths. ❋ Unknown (1721)

We have heard what Christ has to say, to engage our affections to God and godliness, and one would think the whole world should go after him; but here we are told how industrious the tempter is to seduce unwary souls into the paths of sin, and with the most he gains his point, and ❋ Unknown (1721)

Considered together, both episodes anticipate the paschal mystery: Jesus' struggle with the tempter is the prelude to the great final duel of the passion, while the light of his transfigured body anticipates the glory of the resurrection. ❋ Papabear (2008)

When the tempter is a temptress, and really wants you to sin, she needs to be both available and willing. ❋ Frank Wilson (2007)

Whoever was the tempter, that is not the thing; nor what the temptation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Whether, as of old, the tempter was the woman, it is sure that, as of old, the eater was a man. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)

"Satan is called the tempter," Elsie went on, "and I fear that you are doing his work when you wilfully tempt another to sin." ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

(M8) The tempter was the devil — the antagonist of God — the evil power of the world — the principle of evil — a Satanic agency which Scripture, and all nations, in some form, have recognized. ❋ John Lord (1852)

The idea of an escape from natural bonds or disabilities by supernatural means and at the price of the soul or will, the _un_-Christlike surrender to the tempter, which is the _grund-stoff_ of the Faust-legend, was brought home to ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

In other scriptures the devil is called the tempter, and other things may sometimes concur to tempt us; but neither the devil nor any other person or thing is to be blamed so as to excuse ourselves; for the true original of evil and temptation is in our own hearts. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The tempter was his mistress, a person of quality, whom it was his place to obey and his interest to oblige, whose favour would contribute more than any thing to his preferment, and by whose means he might arrive at the highest honours of the court. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The theme of the 'tempter' can be taken a little further, in the case of Qutb. ❋ Frank Wilson (2007)

After replying to the first "tempter" letter, victims' names are put on a "suckers' list" ❋ Unknown (2011)

Those who reply to the first letter, known as a "tempter", are then added to so-called ❋ Unknown (2011)

I say almost perfect garden world because after all it contained an evil 'tempter' in the form of a snake aka devil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scriptures say he [Jesus] said: 'The tempter is the wicked one, who also tempted himself'"(" Hom. "iii.chap. 55). ❋ Annie Wood Besant (1890)

I get so full whenever I visit [Costco] because [I just can't] [resist] all those tempter-teasers. ❋ Ian E James (2005)