As also on crucial occasions in your own life.

As when you had been told not to eat, not to touch, and not even to look at the forbidden fruit, then Ill-pause, the devil's orator, came to you and said that it was a tree to be desired.

And, you shall not surely die.

As also when you were moved to terror and to tears under a Sabbath, or under a sermon, or at some death-bed, or on your own sick- bed--Ill-pause got you to put off till a more convenient season your admitted need of repentance and reformation and peace with God.

On such difficult occasions as these the devil took Ill-pause to help him with you, and the result, from the devil's point of view, has justified his confidence in his orator.