Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
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Dionysius of Alexandria
AD 264
This is the first form of not falling into temptation, when he counsels the weak to pray not to enter into temptation. The temptation to come, for offenses must come, will require that they pray that they enter not into temptation. But the more perfect way of not entering into temptation is what he asks for the second time: “not as I will but as thou.” For God cannot be tempted, but wills to give above what we ask or think. .
