The Spirit and the word are all in all for spiritual life. Furnished with this power faith goes forward, strengthened by the encouraging word of our God. God has a way in the world where Satan cannot touch. us. This is the path where Jesus walked. Satan is the prince of this world; but there is a divine path through it, but no other, and there God's power is. The word is the revelation of it. So the Lord bound the strong Man. He acted by the power of the Spirit, and used the word. The Spirit and the word cannot be separated without falling into fanatacism on the one hand, or into rationalism on the other-without putting oneself outside the place of dependence upon God and of His guidance. Mere reason would become the master of some; imagination of others.