Luke 4:2-4 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungry.… When the devil spies us weak, in want and necessity, or in any other way disabled to resist him, that is a fit time for him to set upon us. As the enemies will make battery upon the walls where weakest, and every one goes over the hedge where lowest, so Satan, where and when he finds us feeblest, there and then will he be dealing with us. If in such weakness as hunger, how much more then in our deadly sicknesses, and in the very pangs of death. It is but a coward's trick, but the devil cares not for his honour, so he may hurt us. Again, if natural and sinless infirmities yield Satan an hint for temptation, what then do the unnatural and sinful? If natural hunger after meat, what then that inordinate appetite, and itching desire after gain, glory, and preferment? (D. Dyke.) Parallel Verses KJV: Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. |
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