For thou by thine own longing givest place to the devil. Hence is thine head overshadowed in the day of battle. For longing causeth heat, but the overshadowing of the Lord tempers longing, that we may be able to bridle that whereby we were being hurried away, that we be not so heated as to be drawn to the snare. Such are they, because such is the devil also himself. How they go about and stand not, how they go in the circle of error, where is journeying without end.
Every proud man is false, and every false man is a liar.
We know these coals. For these I see avail for punishment, those that I am about to speak of, for salvation. For we have spoken of certain coals, when man was seeking aid against a treacherous tongue. He careth not what he speaketh, so long as he speaks. It cannot be that he will be guided.