(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.
1Let us go home, my friends, and wrestle in prayer against the Tempter.
2To buy Dr. Faustus's eternal damnation cost the Tempter the essential knowledge of mankind.
3But just in that happy moment the Tempter gets in.
4That way, whispered the Tempter, was too straight and simple.
5Death, the Tempter, pointed homeward, to the grave of her dead parents in Combe-Raven churchyard.
6In the evening the Tempter's voice is heard:
7But then the Tempter overreached himself, for he whispered: And the voice would be always Jane's.
8Death, the Tempter, was busy at her heart.
9Flown with the Tempter;-lifehave been preserved,-
10No shock of horror chilled me; no remembrance of a voluntary assent to the Tempter could I recall.
11He indignantly told the Tempter that he was content to do things in the good old fashioned way.
12And like the occult Master that He was, He summoned His Inner Forces and beat off the Tempter.
13Through the baits the Tempter brought
14A name, more fearful than a thunderclap, burst despairingly from the lips of the Tempter, and he disappeared.
15I try to skwush the Tempter's voice 'at urges me within;
16For the Tempter had come into this Eden, and soon his foul whisper found place in her heart.
Translations for the Tempter