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W. Somerset Maugham, in the voice of the teller of the tale. The teller summarizes the story of the temptation of Christ from the Gospel of Matthew, then continues:
That was the end of according to the good simple Matthew. But it wasn’t. The devil was sly and he came to Jesus once more and said: It thou wilt accept shame and disgrace, scourging, a crown of thorns and death on the cross, thou shalt save the human race, for no man hath greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus fell. The devil laughed till his sides ached, for he knew the evil men would commit in the name of their redeemer.
Maugham, W. Somerset, The Razor’s Edge, in a collection with five
other of his novels (New York: Heinemann and Oyster, 1980) p. 472
