III. Satan quotes Scripture for his own vile purposes, to screen himself under the semblance of piety. We have a warning here against those renegade Catholic priests and monks who desert the Church and the authority of the Bishops, that they may give themselves up to heresy and to unclean living, sheltering themselves all the while under Scripture texts distorted to serve their own purposes. IV. Satan garbles Scripture in quoting it. 1. He distorts the sense. Christ needed not angelic hands to sustain Him, and therefore the passage is not applicable to Him, but refers to His people. (Acts i. 9. Heb. i. 3.) 2. He omits passages which did not suit his purpose. The words are, _They shall keep Thee in all Thy ways_, i. e. in the ways of God’s commandments, not in breaking those commands. He also omits, _Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt Thou tread under Thy feet_, because those words referred to himself as overcome by Christ. V. Note also how great is the dignity of the true servant of God, upon whom, by God’s command, the angels wait. Hence we may learn:— 1. Not to regard ourselves as of no value, for we are so highly esteemed of God that He commissions His own ministers to attend on us. 2. To entrust ourselves altogether to their guidance, for they will keep us in perfect peace. 3. To lead such a life as will make the angels surround us, and be our constant attendants. As bees swarm about a bed of flowers, so will they gather around those who bloom with Christian graces. Thus, the Bride is spoken of as _terrible as an army with banners_, that army of the living God, the angelic hosts of _chariots and horses of fire_ surrounding the faithful. Around the bed of Solomon were _threescore valiant men_. And angels are about our bed watching and protecting us. _Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God._ Note here that— I. Christ does not enter into a long discussion with the devil, but at once silences him, knowing his obduracy. (Tit. iii. 10.) He teaches us thereby not to parley with diabolic suggestions, but at once to suppress them. II. Christ answered in the words of Scripture, to show us how to meet the assaults of the evil one; not with weapons of our own devising, but with those taken from the armoury of God’s Word.