File:Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew - giving critical and exegetical notes, with illustrations from oriental life, and the text of the common version, 1611, and the revised version, 1881 (14765925422).jpg

Identifier: commentaryongosp00rice (find matches)
Title: Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew : giving critical and exegetical notes, with illustrations from oriental life, and the text of the common version, 1611, and the revised version, 1881 (American readings and renderings)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Rice, Edwin Wilbur, 1831-1929
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ood is tempted; tempta-tions here noted were a culmination. The devil appealed to him through hishuman nature, and used the human powers of Jesus as a medium to forward thetemptation. How Christ, the sinless one, could be tempted is as hard for usto understand as to comprehend how he could become man. We reverentlyaccept the fact, though the mode may be a mystery to us. 2. when he had fasted) Jesus having fasted forty days and fortynights, as Moses and Elijah had, Ex. 34: 28 ; 1 Kings 19 : 8 ; at the end ofthis period he felt the fierceness of hunger. This fast was perhaps a total Common Version. CHAP. IV.—Then was Jesus led up of theSpirit into the wilderness to he temptedof the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days andforty nights, he was afterward a hungered. Revised Version. Then was Jesus led up of the Spiritinto the wilderness to be tempted of thedevil. And when he had fasted forty daysand forty nights, he afterward hungered. w ^ 3 a o » oe-i o §■ 3 ° 3 H ►H O25 £
Text Appearing After Image:
Matt. 4:3-o.j TEMPTATION OF JESUS. 51 abstinence from ordinary food, for Luke says, he did eat nothing/ thoughthis language does not necessarily mean entire abstinence any more thanwhen Jesus himself said, John came neither eating nor drinking, Matt.11: 18, by which Jesus meant to contrast Johns exceedingly spare diet withhis own. So eating nothing may mean no ordinary meal, but keeping a fastfor the whole period. Matthew evidently implies that he did not feel thepangs of hunger until the close of the forty days fast. 3. If thou be the Son of God) Three forms of temptation are described :two of them are introduced by this doubting piece of flattery; If thou artthe Son of God. The first clause of this verse does not mark the beginningof the temptation, as the common English version implies, but the tempterhaving come, said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command that thesestones become loaves. The first form of the temptation was to distrust Godsprovidential care; it was to unbelie

Note About Images