The Lord marked out the “mode of life” for Adam and Eve, but Satan objected to it, and beguiled Eve with what he claimed was a better plan. In Paul’s time Satan still sought slyly to introduce his ways in opposition to those given by the Saviour. He came out more boldly when using Elymas, the sorcerer, whom the apostle rebuked in these words: “O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” Acts 13:10. COOD 140.3