The Spurious Epistles

Then dare you, who fell “as lightning” from the very highest glory, to say to the Lord, “Cast yourself down from hence” [to Him] to whom the things that are not are reckoned as if they were, and to provoke to a display of vainglory Him that was free from all ostentation? And did you pretend to read in Scripture concerning Him: “For He has given His angels charge concerning You, and in their hands they shall bear You up, lest you should dash Your foot against a stone?” At the same time you pretended to be ignorant of the rest, furtively concealing what [the Scripture] predicted concerning you and your servants: “You shall tread upon the adder and the basilisk; the lion and the dragon shall you trample under foot.”