I would unmask the devil!

(Talmage, "The Abominations of Modern Society", 1872)

"Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light!"
 2 Corinthians 11:14

Sin, crawling out of the ditch of poverty and shame,
has but few temptations.

Poets and painters have portrayed Satan as a hideous
creature—with horns and hoofs. If I were a poet, I
would describe him with . . .
  manners polished to the last perfection,
  hair flowing in graceful ringlets,
  eye glistening with splendor;
  hands soft and diamonded;
  step light and graceful;
  voice mellow as a flute;
  conversation articulate and eloquent;
  breath perfumed until it would seem that nothing
    had ever touched his lips, but balm and myrrh.

But his heart I would encase with the scales
of a monster, then filled . . .
  with pride,
  with beastliness of lust,
  with recklessness,
  with hypocrisy,
  with death,
  with damnation!

In my next portrait—I would unmask the devil
—until his two eyes would become the cold orbs of
the adder; and on his lip would come the foam of
raging intoxication; and to his feet, the spring of the
panther; and his soft hand would become the clammy
hand of a wasted skeleton; and in the smooth lisp of
his tongue, would come the hiss of the worm which
never dies; while suddenly from his heart would burst
in all-devouring fury—the unquenchable flames of hell!

But, until unmasked, I would describe him as nothing but
myrrh, and balm, and ringlet, and diamond, and flute-like
voice, with pleasant and mirthful conversation.

"So that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are very
 familiar with his evil schemes." 2 Corinthians 2:11