Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Deus, sicut scriptum est, neminem tenat; sed tentare dicitur, cum contumaciter euntes ad tentationum laqueos derelinquit. Sic Adam tentatoris, incurrit insidias, dum sui praecepta deserit conditoris. Unde autem et a quo tentaretur homo prodit sic dicendo: Sed libera nos a malo. Hoc est a diabolo qui totius mali et auctor est, et origo: diabolus natura coelestis fuit; nunc est nequitia spiritulais, aetate major saeculo, nocendi usu tritus, laedendi arte peritissimus; unde non jam malus, sed malum dicitur, a quo est omne quod malum est. Hinc est quod propriis viribus liberari homo non potest, carnalibus vinculis illigatus. Petendum nobis est ergo ut Deus nos a diabolo liberet, qui Christum terris ut diabolum vinceret, commodavit. Clamet homo, clamet ad Deum, clamet, libera nos a malo, ut a tanto malo, solo Christo vincente, liberemur. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo LXX

And lead us not into temptation. 1 God tempts no one, 2 as Scripture says. But it is called tempting when He abandons those who obstinately go into the snares of temptation. So Adam fell into the wiles of the tempter, when he abandoned the precepts of his Creator. Whence by whom a man is tempted He proceeds to announce: 'But deliver us from evil'. That is, from the devil who is the author of all evil, and the fount of it. The devil was heavenly by nature; he is now spiritual wickedness, older than the world, well accustomed to harm, most skilful in the art of wounding, whence he is not called an evil thing but evil, from which every evil is. Hence it is that a man by his own strength is not able to free himself when he is bound in carnal bonds. Therefore we must seek that God free us from the devil, who gave Christ to the earth that he conquer the Devil. Let man cry out, let him cry out to God, 'Deliver us from evil,' that from so great an evil, that Christ alone conquers, we may be freed. Saint Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 70 1 Mt 6.13 2 Jam 1.13