AELW page 213
Psalm 91, Verse 3
3. For he will deliver me from the snare of the hunters.
"...there is nothing to hinder understanding this text as referring to the enticers who through allurements hunt souls into their snare (that is, sin) [hence the apostle calls riches a snare of the devil, 1 Tim. 6:9.],9 and so they come into a sharp word, that is, the worm of conscience, which always bothers and bites the soul and makes it unhappy, so that remorse and unhappiness are truly present in it. Every bad conscience constantly hears this hard word. But it is the one which has fallen into the snare of sin that hears it; if it had not fallen, it would not hear it. Yet from this it is delivered by Christ alone."
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