Luke 4:9-13 And in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.… It is no disgrace nor disparagement to the Scriptures to proceed from Satan, nor any occasion to make us leave cur hold; for Christ answereth again, and striketh with the same weapon wherewith He was stricken, showing us that it is lawful to use a text well, against them that do abuse a text; and if Christ's example be our precedent, then we may allege Scripture against depraved Scripture. For the bee may gather honey on the same stalk that the spider doth poison. And though a swashbuckler kill a man with his weapon, yet a soldier may lawfully knit a sword to his side; and though there be many piracies committed on the sea, yet may the merchants traffic; or though some surfeit by gluttony, yet may others use their temperate diet. And if the devil change himself into an angel of light, shall therefore the angels lose their light? 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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