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50 THE FOUR GOSPELS. be the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.

4. Who answering, said: It is written: Not on bread alone doth man live, but on every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God!

5. Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, and set Him upon the pinnacle of the temple.

6. And said to Him: If Thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down; for it is written: “That He hath given His angels charge over Thee, and in their hands they shall

1 The tempter suspected that Chriet was the Son of God in a high and peculiar sense, without thinking. perhaps, of His divinity, which was “a mystery hidden from ages and generations.” Col. i, 26.


 * “Say: " it meana here to order.

gower. The tempter challenges Chriat to supply, by auch an act, the cravings of hie appetite.
 * The change of stones into bread would be a direct act of Almighty

‘ Luke iv. 4, The term rendered word, often means thing, matter, or substance, but it here implies decree; whatever God nay ordain, The meaning is, that human life may be sustained by whatever means God pleases, as the Israelites were supported by manna in the desert. ‘Thus Moses spake to the ancient people: ‘‘He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for food, which neither theu nor thy fathers knew ; to show that not on bread alone doth man live, but on every word that pro- ceedeth from the mouth of God.” Deut. viii. 3. The author of the book of Wisdom praises God for the manna in similar terms: ‘that Thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of freita that nourisheth men, but Thy word preserveth them that believe in Thee.” Wisdom xvi. 26.

that the temptations did not follow in close succession.
 * This particle is used with great latitude. Some interpreters think

the air. The terma may be understood of conducting Him to the sum- mit of the temple, by the ordinary way. ‘The tempter probably assumed s human form. St. Luke speaks of Satan having led Christ to a high waountain, tv. 5.
 * This does not necessarily suppose that Satan carried Christ through

were iron spikes fixed all over the roof. Some take it to mean the top of a very high portico, buiit by Herod, from which few could venture to look down on the péecipice beneath.
 * This may be understood of a turret, or spire on the temple. There