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Verse Matthew 4:6. _CAST THYSELF DOWN_] Our Lord had repelled the
first temptation by an act of confidence in the power and goodness of
God; and now Satan solicits him to make trial of it. Through th...
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AND SAITH UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN - The
temptation here was, that he should at once avail himself of the
protection of a promise of safety made to him, and thus demonstr...
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4. THE TESTING OF THE KING AND HIS TESTIMONY.
_ 1. The Testing by the Devil. (Matthew 4:1 .) 2. His Testimony and
His Disciples. (Matthew 4:12 .) 3. The Powers of the Kingdom. (Matthew
4:23 .)_
CHAP...
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THE TEMPTATION (Mark 1:12 f.*, Luke 4:1 *). Jesus'sudden recognition
of His Sonship or Messiah-ship and of the responsibility thus laid
upon Him, found natural expression in His retirement into solitu...
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HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE CONCERNING THEE.
The devil can also quote Scripture and in, this instance appears in
the guise of. very religious personage, but like many perverters of
Scripture who p...
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THE TESTING TIME (Matthew 4:1-11)
Step by step Matthew unfolds the story of Jesus. He begins by showing
us how Jesus was born into this world. He goes on to show us, at least
by implication, that Jes...
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Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by
the devil. After he had deliberately gone without food for forty days
and forty nights he was hungry. So the tempter came and said...
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CAST THYSELF DOWN. An attempt upon His life. See App-23, and note on
Matthew 23:16.
IT IS WRITTEN. Satan can quote Scripture and garble it by _omitting_
the essential words "to keep Thee in all Thy wa...
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Matthew 4:1-11. The Temptation of Jesus. Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13
St Mark's account is short; the various temptations are not
specified; he adds the striking expression "he was with the wild
beasts....
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_it is written_ Psalms 91:11-12. The words "to keep thee in all thy
ways" are omitted in the text. The omission distorts the meaning of
the original, which is that God will keep the righteous on their...
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ΒΆΛΕ ΣΕΑΥΤῸΝ ΚΆΤΩ. The depth was immense: Josephus
speaking of the ‘Royal Porch’ (στοὰ βασιλική) says
‘if anyone looked down from the top of the battlements he would be
giddy, while his sight could no...
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THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS
Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13.
St Mark’s account is short; the various temptations are not
specified; he adds the striking expression ἦν μετὰ τῶν
θηρίων. St Luke places the tempt...
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VER 5. THEN THE DEVIL TAKETH HIM UP INTO THE HOLY CITY, AND SETTETH
HIM ON A PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE, 6. AND SAITH UNTO HIM, "IF THOU BE
THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, 'HE SHALL...
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_JESUS WAS A TEMPTED SAVIOR MATTHEW 4:1-11:_ At this point Jesus began
His preaching ministry as described in Isaiah 61:1. "The Spirit of the
Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to...
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ΒΆΛΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать,
ΣΕΑΥΤΌΝ (G4572) _асс. refl. pron. 2 pers._
ΚΆΤΩ (G2736) _adv._ вниз,
ΓΆΡ (G1063) тогда, поскольку
(объяснительное значение),
ΌΤ (G3754) используетс...
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IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD— The Jews were undoubtedly right in
thinking that the Messiah is spoken of by Daniel, Daniel 7:13. But
they fell into a gross mistake, when, interpreting that passage
literal...
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CHAPTER FOUR
Section 7. JESUS IS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
(Parallels: Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)
TEXT: 4:1-11
1.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted
of the devil.
2....
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And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for
it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in
their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou...
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16-17 Compare Joh_1:32-34.
16 As God's Spirit has no material form it is figured to us in various
ways, which suggest its force and significance. It is usually
presented as a blast of air, for this is...
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4:6 written, (h-17) Psalms 91:11-12 ....
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THE TEMPTATION
1-11. The temptation (Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1). The narrative, which can
only have come from our Lord's own lips, describes an actual
historical fact, the great temptation which He underwen...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 4
THE DEVIL TESTS JESUS 4:1-11
V1 The *Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert. The devil tested Jesus
while he was there. V2 For 40 d...
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IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD. — In this case, as before, the temptation
starts from the attestation of the character of Jesus as the Son of
God. With this there is now joined an appeal to familiar and sa...
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CHAPTER 5
His Temptation - Matthew 4:1
MUCH has been written on the possibility of temptation in the
experience of a sinless Being. The difficulties which have been raised
in this region are chiefly...
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βάλε σεαυτὸν κάτω : This suggestion strongly makes for
the symbolic or parabolic nature of the whole representation. The mad
proposal could hardly be a temptation to such an one as Jesus, or
indeed to...
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_Second temptation_. τστε παραλαμ.… τοῦ ἱεροῦ
: τότε has the force of “next,” and implies a closer order of
sequence than Luke's καὶ (Matthew 4:5). παραλαμβάνει,
historical present with dramatic effec...
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_The Temptation_ (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)....
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TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
Matthew 4:1-11
_Then_ marks the close connection between the heavenly voice of the
baptism and the fiery ordeal of the forty days. Notice that temptation
is not in itself sin; on...
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"Then." After the heavens opened, hell is opened. The King must not
only be in perfect harmony with the order and beauty of the heavens,
He must face all the disorder and ugliness of the abyss. Goodne...
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Heretics, says St. Augustine, quote Scriptures, as the devil does
here, in a wrong and forced sense; the Church cites them, like Jesus
Christ, in their true sense, and to confute their falsehood. (Con...
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THE TEMPTATION
Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13. Matthew says that _“He
was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.”_
Mark says: “The Spirit immediately impels Him away...
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Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered
unto him.
The subject of CHRIST'S temptations, is a subject attended with much
difficulty thoroughly to explain. One of the great ca...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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_SIN AS A VOLUNTARY ACT_
‘Then the devil taketh Him up into the holy city … Cast Thyself
down: for it is written … Jesus said unto him, It is written again,
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.’
M...
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6._He will charge his angels concerning thee. _We must observe this
malice of Satan, in misapplying a quotation of Scripture, for the
purpose of rendering life deadly to Christ, and of converting brea...
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Having thus, in grace, taken up His position as man on earth, He
commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the
S...
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AND SAITH UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD,.... He addresses him
after the same manner as before; if, or seeing,
THOU ART THE SON OF GOD, show thyself to be so; give proof of thy
sonship before al...
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And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for
it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in
_their_ hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time tho...
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_Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city_ That is, the city
Jerusalem, frequently called _the holy city_ in Scripture, see
Nehemiah 11:1; Isaiah 52:1; Daniel 9:24; and that with great
propriet...
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IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN; Satan would have Jesus
tempt God by a needless exposure of his life.
IT IS WRITTEN; Psalms 91:11-12. The phrase, "in all thy ways," which
is in the text...
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Repulsed, but not routed, the devil seeks a new line of attack:...
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a. and saith unto Him, If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down.
His attempt to produce distrust in God's ability to sustain life under
unusual conditions having failed, Satan tries to plant the s...
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There could be no doubt therefore that He would fulfil this virtual
pledge to bear their sins on Calvary. Notice too that the Father
approves Him in this unqualified way before His being tested by Sat...
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1-11 Concerning Christ's temptation, observe, that directly after he
was declared to be the Son of God, and the Saviour of the world, he
was tempted; great privileges, and special tokens of Divine fa...
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Before the devil had tempted our Lord to diffidence or distrust in
God's providence, and the use of means not allowed by God to supply
himself; here he tempts him to an unwarrantable presumption, and...
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Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians
from the very highest glory, to say to the Lord, "Cast thyself down
from hence[47]...
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JESUS FACES UP TO HIS FUTURE IN THE WILDERNESS (4:1-11).
The most momentous moment of His conscious life to date having taken
place, Jesus will now have to face up to what it involves. For having
bee...
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‘And says to him, “If You are the Son of God, cast yourself down,
for it is written, ‘He will give his angels charge concerning you,'
and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest it happen that yo...
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Matthew 4:6. The devil takes the weapon with which he had been already
overcome. He too, ‘can cite Scripture for his purpose.' But the
result proves that Satan was but a surface reader, or rather a wi...
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SECOND TEMPTATION; Matthew 4:5-7. Luke mentions this last. The order
here is probably exact; Matthew 4:5; Matthew 4:8, indicate an order of
succession, which is not necessarily implied in Luke's accou...
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The threefold temptation by Satan; the threefold victory over Satan.
He who came ‘to destroy the works of the devil,' triumphs over him
in personal conflict. This was the Messiah's _trial_ and _probat...
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CAST THYSELF DOWN
(βαλε σεαυτον κατω). The appeal to hurl himself down
into the abyss below would intensify the nervous dread that most
people feel at such a height. The devil urged presumptuous rel...
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ANGELS
(_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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Matthew 4:1
I. One cannot help thinking and wondering why this temptation should
take place, and though all the reasons cannot be known, some of them
we think we can see. We know there is a devil. Per...
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Matthew 4:5
I. Our Lord was carried from the wilderness to the holy city.
Understand by this how all our circumstances in the world may be
changed, and yet the tempter be with us still. Hundreds of me...
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Matthew 4:5
I. It was a master-piece of Satan to take Christ to the Temple. There
was the spot which God loved best in the whole earth, that He had
fenced around with most special and jealous care. I...
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Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil._
He had just been baptized, the Spirit of God had descended upon him,
and the Father had borne witnes...
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Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil._
What a change it seems from the descent of the Holy Spirit to being
led up into the wilderness to be...
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CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus' public ministry begun. Call of
first disciples.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, John the Baptist, Peter, Andrew, James,
John, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: The Word of God is t...
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Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit,_ υπο του
πνευματος, the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the Greek
article, and declared in the verses preseding. _Led into the
wilderness,_ where he was...
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IF YOU ARE GOD'S SON. Again the taunt. Note the Devil can quote
scripture too. Jesus had demonstrated his trust in God's word. The
Devil asks him to go from the extreme of distrusting God, to
reckless...
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_Angels charge._
THE ANGELIC MINISTERS OF THE GOOD
I. Commissioned by God. They are “His angels”-obey His behests,
carry out His purpose.
II. Exercised for the godly as individuals. God does not ove...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:1 Jesus the Messiah Begins to Advance the
Messianic Kingdom. Jesus triumphs over the devil in the wilderness
(vv. Matthew 4:1), proclaims the kingdom
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:6 FOR IT IS WRITTEN. Such a spectacular
display as jumping from this great height unharmed (compare Psalms
91:1) might have gained Jesus an enth
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SATAN TEMPS JESUS IN THE DESERT MATTHEW 4:1-11; MARK 1:12-13; LUKE
4:1-13; MATTHEW 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the
wilderness t
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CHAPTER 4
_By the devil_. Syriac, _by the accuser_, Gr. _διάβολος_,
_accuser_, _calumniator_. For Satan is he who accuses men before God
perpetually, that he may gain them for himself and Gehenna.
_T...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS—GENERAL REMARKS
_There is only one way of understanding the narrative_, viz. as the
history of a real occurrence, of an actual temptation of our Lord by
the d...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 4:1
THE TEMPTATION. The Father's acceptance of the Lord's consecration of
himself for the work of the kingdom does not exclude temptation, but
rather necessitates it. Psychologica...
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Chapter Four
Then was Jesus led of the Spirit into the wilderness (Matthew 4:1)
Immediately, He is now being led by the Spirit, walking after the
Spirit. The New Testament has so much to say to us co...
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2 Corinthians 11:14; Hebrews 1:14; Job 1:10; Job 5:23; Luke 4:9;...
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In their hands [ε π ι]. On their hands (so Rev.) is more correct,
and gives a different picture from the A. V. in : lifted on their
hands, as on a litter or platform....
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THE TEMPTATION (NO. 2)
Matthew 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. "THEN" the word holds our attention. "Then was Jesus led up of the
Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." The word
"then" c...
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THE TEMPTATION
Matthew 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The temptation of Christ in the wilderness had no direct bearing upon
our salvation, as we are saved by His Blood. However, the temptation
did acclaim...
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In their hands — That is, with great care. Psalms 91:11....
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(CF. LUKE 4:5-12)—Is there a mistake in recording the wilderness
temptation of Christ by Matthew or Luke?
PROBLEM: According to both Matthew and Luke, the first temptation was
to turn stones into brea...
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Here we have observable, first, the sin which Satan tempts Christ
unto; and next, the argument which he tempts him from.
The sin tempted to, is the sin of self-murder; CAST THYSELF DOWN.
Whence we l...