Temptation And Evil

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Quia in saeculo est ipsa vita tentatio. Tentatio, inquit ille, est vita hominis. Rogemus ergo ut nos arbitrio nostro non relinquat, sed in omni actu paterna nos pietate constringat, et in vitae tramite coelesti moderatione confirmet. Sed libera nos a malo. A quo malo? A diabolo quippe, ex quo est omne malum. Rogamus liberari nos a malo, quia malo qui non caruerit, frui non potest bono. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo Source: Migne PL 52 392c-393a

And lead us not into temptation 1  Because in the world life itself is a trial. 'The life of man upon earth is a trial,' Job says. 2 Let us ask Him, then, that he not abandon us to our own will, but that he direct us in every act with His paternal benevolence and by His guidance from heaven strengthen us on the path of life. But deliver us from evil. From which evil? Surely from the Devil from whom is all evil. We ask to be freed from evil, because he who has not been taken from evil cannot take joy in the good. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 67, On The Lord's Prayer 1 Mt 6.13 2 Job 7.1