The great seducer always uses the same devices: he seems to take God at his word, and yet he twists the meaning of this word almost before it has left God’s mouth. For we can only take God at his word by placing ourselves under and not above this word.

—Helmut Thielicke, Between God and Satan Translated by C. C. Barber (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1958), 55.