Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man. Here to tempt, is to draw and entice another to the evil of sin, which God cannot do. The Greek may also signify, he neither can be tempted, nor tempt any one. But every one is thus tempted by the evil desires of his corrupt nature, which is called concupiscence, and which is not properly called a sin of itself, but only when we yield to it. (Witham)
