IV. Expresses our reliance on God if temptation comes.

I take to be 'tempted' as being presentation of inducement to sin. I

take to 'enter into temptation' as the further step of consenting to it.

Perhaps there may be hovering in the words of the petition a

half-conscious allusion to a captive being led into a prison.

What we should chiefly desire is that God would lead us not _into_, but

_through_ and _out of_, temptation. To pray simply for exemption from

trial is--

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