THE RECOIL OF EVIL. The most basic prayer is: “Save me, O God” (verse 1). David leaves his vindication to God (verse 1) and to the natural outworking of evil’s self-destructive tendencies (verse 5). The self-defeating nature of evil is depicted nowhere better than in Perelandra, the second book of C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy. The character possessed by the devil gloats over the death of the Son of God until Ransom, the Christian, asks him, essentially, “And how did that work out for you?” The demon throws back his head and howls, because he remembers that in killing Christ he defeated himself
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