INTRO
TO THE SECOND TEMPTATION
"Then the devil taketh Him into the holy city." Matt 4:5
There is no definite data for
determining the length of time clasping between these several attacks. In all
probability they followed each other in quick succession. This seems to be
suggested by the word with which Matthew introduces the account of the second
attack. "Then the devil taketh Him
into the holy city." (Matt 4:5)
This would suggest immediateness, that directly he was repulsed at the one
point, he commenced the attack from some new vantage ground. He had attempted
the overthrow of obedience through AN ATTACK UPON THE PHYSICAL NATURE. In
renewing the attack he no longer appeals to the element of weakness created by
hunger, but to that which was the very strength of spiritual life, namely, THE
MASTER'S TRUST IN GOD.
Following the order of the previous
consideration in the first temptation, first consider THE ATTACK; and secondly,
THE REPULSE.
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