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fear for men, and our guardians shall give up their charge; but while the Despairing One is driven back from among the stars, and has liberty to escape from hell; while we know that he besets the earth, and fulfils his vow — how can we be safe, unless some of his own race, and substance, and power, are near to protect us?
When is this appointed time of punishment? inquired Eber; — and what is this vow?
When the dead shall arise, the Evil One shall have no more power; but till then, he does as he promised on the day when he refused to worship Adam, and made the vow, 'O Lord, because thou hast seduced me, I will surely tempt men in the earth; and I will seduce them all except thy chosen servants.'[1] Your scriptures also relate how he did thus with Adam, and alas! how many have since fallen!
Nay, said Eber; our Scriptures say that it was the serpent who seduced Eve, and Eve her husband.
And who made the serpent to speak, but the Evil Spirit within him? And why was Michael sent with the sword of God to cut off the legs
- ↑ Koran.
