"81:7 In distress you called, and I delivered you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah"
"When the soul has sinned, immediately there begins the clamor and growling of the conscience, which is truly a noisy sound in God’s ears. For this is “a violent taking of spoils with tumult” (Is. 9:5). How does he say at the same place that it is not the despoiling of Christ? This is indeed the manifestation of the storm but the hidden place of calm and peace. On the contrary, in the devil’s case it is an outward show of calm but in secret an uproar and a storm. For in the open he tickles the sense, and inwardly he disturbs the mind. But Christ openly disturbs the sense and inwardly tickles and calms the mind. The devil leads to the heavens and brings down to hell; Christ brings down to hell and back again."
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