I would unmask the devil by Talmud. Satan himself masquerades as
an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11 verse 14. Sin, crawling out of the ditch
of poverty and shame, has but few temptations. Poets and painters
have portrayed Satan as a hideous creature with horns and hooves. If I were a poet, I would describe
him with manners polished to the last perfection. hair flowing
in graceful ringlets, eye glistening with splendor, hands soft and
diamond, step light and graceful, voice mellow as a flute, conversation
articulate and eloquent, breath perfumed until it would seem
that nothing had ever touched his lips but balm and myrrh. But his heart I would encase
with the scales of a monster, Then filled with pride, with
beastliness of lust, With recklessness, with hypocrisy, with death, with
damnation. In my next portrait, I would
unmask the devil, Until his two eyes would become the cold orbs
of the adder, And on his lip would come the foam of raging
intoxication. And to his feet the spring of
the panther, And his soft hand would become the clammy hand
of a wasted skeleton. And in the smooth lisp of his
tongue would come the hiss of the worm which never dies, While
suddenly from his heart would burst in all devouring fury the
unquenchable flames of hell. But until unmasked, I would describe
him as nothing but myrrh and balm and ringlet and diamond
and flute-like voice with pleasant and mirthful conversation, so
that Satan will not outsmart us, for we are very familiar
with his evil schemes." 2 Corinthians 2 verse 11. This Puritan devotional has been
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