Humanly speaking, to tempt someone means to offer him some inducement to defy his conscience. In that sense, the Evil One cannot be said to tempt us for, to him, conscience is a fiction. Nor can he properly be thought of as trying to make us do anything, for he does not believe in the existence of deeds. What to us is a temptation to him is an experiment: he is trying to confirm a hypothesis about human behaviour.
