17.  And lead us not into temptation, O Lord.  Is this then what the Lord teaches us to pray, that we may not be tempted at all?  How then is it said elsewhere, “a man untempted, is a man unproved Tertull. De Bapt. c. 20:  “For the word had gone before ‘that no one untempted should attain to the celestial kingdoms.’”  Apost. Const. II. viii.:  “The Scripture says, ‘A man that is a reprobate (ἀδόκιμος) is not tried (ἀπείραστος) by God.’”  Resch, Agrapha, Logion 26, p. 188, quotes allusions to the saying in Jas. i. 12, 13; 2 Cor. xiii. 5, 6, 7, and concludes that it was recorded as a saying of our Lord in one of the un-canonical gospels (Luke i. 1), where it occurred in the context of the incident narrated in Matt. xxvi. 41, Mark xiv. 38.;” and again, My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations Jas. i. 2.?  But does perchance the entering into temptation mean the being overwhelmed by the temptation?  For temptation is, as it were, like a winter torrent difficult to cross.  Those therefore who are not overwhelmed in temptations, pass through, shewing themselves excellent swimmers, and not being swept away by them at all; while those who are not such, enter into them and are overwhelmed.  As for example, Judas having entered into the temptation of the love of money, swam not through it, but was overwhelmed and was strangled ἀπεπνίγη.  Matt. xxvii. 5:  ἀπήγξατο. both in body and spirit.  Peter entered into the temptation of the denial; but having entered, he was not overwhelmed by it, but manfully swam through it, and was delivered from the temptation Compare the description of Peter’s repentance in Cat. ii. 19..  Listen again, in another place, to a company of unscathed saints, giving thanks for deliverance from temptation, Thou, O God hast proved us; Thou hast tried us by fire like as silver is tried.  Thou broughtest us into the net; Thou layedst afflictions upon our loins.  Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water; and thou broughtest us out into a place of rest Ps. lxvi. 10–12..  Thou seest them speaking boldly in regard to their having passed through and not been pierced For ἐμπαρῆναι the Ben. Ed. conjectures ἐμπαγῆναι “to have been stuck fast.”.  But Thou broughtest us out into a place of rest; now their coming into a place of rest is their being delivered from temptation.