Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God "not to lead us into temptation ,"[46] Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione own power! But in the prayer prescribed to us, when we say to our Father, "Lead us not into temptation "[8] Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle and again in His prayer, He says to His Father, "and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."[24] Didache (or, evil); for Thine is the power and the glory for ever.[84] Clementine Homily XIX Also, in the prayer which He delivered to us, we have it said, `Deliver its from the evil one.'[9]