Where the Devil Cannot Come He Will Send
“WHERE THE DEVIL CANNOT COME HE WILL SEND.”—A proverb of very serious import, which excellently sets out to us the penetrative character of temptations, and the certainty that they will follow and find men out in their strictest retreats. It rebukes the absurdity of supposing that by any outward arrangements, cloistered retirement, flights into the wilderness, sin can be kept at a distance. So far from this, temptations will inevitably overleap all these outward and108merely artificial barriers which may be raised up against them; for our great enemy is as formidable from a seeming distance as in close combat; where he cannot come he will send.