There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man Adapted to human powers(ἀνθρώπινος). A consolation, as the last verse was a warning. These words were intended to meet an objection that it was impossible to walk warily enough impossible to adjust aright the boundaries of our own freedom and our brother's need. Every temptation as it comes, St Paul says, will have the way of escape provided from it by God: All that a Christian has to do is to live in humble dependence upon Him, neither perplexed in the present nor anxious for the future. Cf. 2 Peter 2:9.

will with the temptation also make a way to escape The original is stronger with the temptation will make the way of escape also.

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