Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ver. 13. That ye may be able to withstand] Not seeking to resist Satan's craft with craft, fraud with fraud, sed per apertum martem, but by open defiance. He shoots, saith Greenham, with Satan in his own bow, who thinks by disputing and reasoning to put him off. To argue the case with him is but, as the proverb hath it, to light a candle to the devil. Button up his mouth therefore, as our Saviour did, Mark 1:25, and buckle close to him and he will fly, James 4:7, for he is but a coward.
" Est leo si fugias; si stas, quasi musca recedit. "
And having done all to stand] Charles V while he was putting on his armour looked pale, and seemed fearful; but when once armed, he was bold as a lion, and feared no colours.