[[28]] Cor. ii, 9.
[[29]] Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat, chap. xiii.
[[30]] Ibid.
[[31]] Eph. vi.
[[32]] Compare Romans xvi, 20: "The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly." "The God of peace" goes forth to war, fighting in order to secure that peace whereby His title of "Prince of Peace" is justified; and it is His power that will bruise Satan, but the bruising is to be under our feet. We give ourselves to Him that He may conquer in and through us.
CHAPTER X
THE TESTS OF VICTORY AND DEFEAT
It is all very well to sit down calmly, and consider, as we have done, the stages of temptation, and to draw definite conclusions as to the point at which the temptation passes over into sin. Such principles as these are not hard to discover. In fact, as a general rule it is comparatively easy in any matter to arrive at moral principles. If we cannot think them out for ourselves, any handbook of Christian ethics will give them to us, cut and dried.