But he answered and said,
It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
And therefore in the temptation he makes a proposal of such a double kind by which His divinity would be made known by the miracle of the transformation, the weakness of the man deceived by the delight of food.