This one goes out to all my Facebook friends in the legal profession. In the words of my dear departed father, "Don't make a lawyer, Bob. This family can't afford to have a paid liar." :
"I now see that great faith will, or ought, to give to every child of God great patience."
" Precisely," replied the Devil. " Have great faith in God, and you and the rest of unthinking mortals will abuse me less ; pray more, live better, and eventually die happier. Get right, and keep right, is my disinterested advice."
" Well," said the Doctor, " we will change the subject, and talk about the 'Temptation in the Garden of Eden.' I want to hear you on that."
"Very good," smiled the Devil. "I was there, and went by the name of Serpent, and you shall have an honest version of the affair, though I have been terribly slandered by you mortals."
"Well," said the Doctor ; " to be plain, you told old mother Eve a lie to begin with, and have been called the Father of Liars ever since."
"I am aware of the fact," smiled the Devil, " but how do you make out I told Eve a lie? I say I did not."
"Here it is, as plain as it is possible to put it in words : I read : 'And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.' "
"I told her the truth," said the Devil, " as I under stood the words of God, and as you or any other reasoning mortal would have understood them."
"How is that ? " asked the Doctor.
"Hand me the Bible," said the Devil. "I read : ' But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it : for in the day ' — mark the expression — ' for in the day that thou eatest thereof ' — THOU, emphasized the Devil — ' THOU shalt surely die.' Now I ask you as an honest man, a seeker after truth and light, was anything said about a woman's eating? Woman had not then been created, if the second chapter of Genesis be a true history. Did God say, 'Nor your wife ' ? Had He done so, Adam would not have known what He was talking about. He understood the tree, for he saw it ; but he did not know anything about the woman part in the eating. THOU, was a very pointed command, and Adam understood it." (page 61-62 from THE DEVIL REVEALS HIMSELF) https://books.google.com/books?id=FZgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22unthinking+mortals%22&source=bl&ots=qj9u3Wr9n2&sig=ACfU3U3xN-wE8Pf_vllsXmr29oW3RHL3PQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYxcTin_7mAhXOVt8KHb6kDHgQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22unthinking%20mortals%22&f=false
"I now see that great faith will, or ought, to give to every child of God great patience."
" Precisely," replied the Devil. " Have great faith in God, and you and the rest of unthinking mortals will abuse me less ; pray more, live better, and eventually die happier. Get right, and keep right, is my disinterested advice."
" Well," said the Doctor, " we will change the subject, and talk about the 'Temptation in the Garden of Eden.' I want to hear you on that."
"Very good," smiled the Devil. "I was there, and went by the name of Serpent, and you shall have an honest version of the affair, though I have been terribly slandered by you mortals."
"Well," said the Doctor ; " to be plain, you told old mother Eve a lie to begin with, and have been called the Father of Liars ever since."
"I am aware of the fact," smiled the Devil, " but how do you make out I told Eve a lie? I say I did not."
"Here it is, as plain as it is possible to put it in words : I read : 'And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.' "
"I told her the truth," said the Devil, " as I under stood the words of God, and as you or any other reasoning mortal would have understood them."
"How is that ? " asked the Doctor.
"Hand me the Bible," said the Devil. "I read : ' But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it : for in the day ' — mark the expression — ' for in the day that thou eatest thereof ' — THOU, emphasized the Devil — ' THOU shalt surely die.' Now I ask you as an honest man, a seeker after truth and light, was anything said about a woman's eating? Woman had not then been created, if the second chapter of Genesis be a true history. Did God say, 'Nor your wife ' ? Had He done so, Adam would not have known what He was talking about. He understood the tree, for he saw it ; but he did not know anything about the woman part in the eating. THOU, was a very pointed command, and Adam understood it." (page 61-62 from THE DEVIL REVEALS HIMSELF) https://books.google.com/books?id=FZgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22unthinking+mortals%22&source=bl&ots=qj9u3Wr9n2&sig=ACfU3U3xN-wE8Pf_vllsXmr29oW3RHL3PQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYxcTin_7mAhXOVt8KHb6kDHgQ6AEwEXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22unthinking%20mortals%22&f=false
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