For “our enemy the devil goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may swallow” (1 Peter 5:8) and as a serpent sending the hissings upon us. Yet may it not come about that he say “I have swallowed,” (Psalm 124:2–3) nor that he overtake in us a day which the scorching sun works; for it has been said: “the sun will not scorch you by day” (Psalm 121:6)—for with pleasures and wrath he scorches and provides the error as light and knowledge. Singing psalms, then, we will say: “if the Lord had not been in us, then living they would have swallowed us,” (1 Peter 5:8) and “the lamp of the impious will be quenched.” (Job 18:5)