Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.—2 COR. 2:11 IN this fifth verse, the apostle shews, that the incestuous person had by his incest sadded those precious souls that God would not have sadded.1 Souls that walk sinfully are Hazaels to the godly, 2 Kings 8:12, et seq., and draw many sighs and tears from them. Jeremiah weeps in secret for Judah’s sins, Jer. 9:1; and Paul cannot speak of the belly-gods with dry eyes,
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