Jesus said unto him,
It is written again, You shall not test the Lord your God.
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Glossa Ordinaria
AD 1480
Ord.: The Devil places us on high places by exalting with pride, that he may dash us to the ground again.
ord.: Observe here that all these things were done with bodily sense, and by careful comparison of the context it seems probable that the Devil appeared inhuman form.
ap. Anselm: He set Him on a pinnacle of the temple when he would tempt Him through ambition, because in this seat of the doctors he had before taken many through the same temptation, and therefore thought that when set in the same seat, He might in like manner be puffed up with vain pride.
ap. Anselm: We must explain thus; Scripture says of any good man, that He has given it in charge to His Angels, that is to His ministering spirits, to bear him in their hands, i.e. by their aid to guard him that he dash not his foot against a stone, i.e. keep his heart that it stumble not at the old law written in tables of stone. Or by the stone may be understood every occasion of sin and error.
