Note 2 — Chapter VII
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"A temptation can never be divorced from a course of life. It is woven into the very texture of life's continuity. It is a temptation because of what we are at the time. It is the conditions of the crisis which make a moment, a decision, critical.... It is thus the whole setting of a life which brings temptation. So temptation is never clean detached from the past, or the future, of the tempted; for there is no such thing as a human experience which has not its roots in the past, and its fruit in the sequel."—H. J. C. Knight, The Temptation of our Lord, p. 55.