...Again the devil taketh him up into an 8exceeding high mountain , and fheweth him ail the Kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them * in a moment of time, 5, 6. Luke iv. »Mat.iv.p,and the devil laid unto him, - All this io, u. • ,,-: • • ,• power...

...at. " The Devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and fheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time." We do not well underftand how he conducted this ftratagem: but, being permitted to try all his artifices,...

...command these stones to be made bread;" with the lust of the eye, " Satan shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time ;" and the pride of life, " All shall be thine if thou wilt worship me." And, add to all this, the...

...to his imagination a seductive representation of the glories of temporal dominion, " He took him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ;" that is, as I understand the words — as in the former case — he...

...(See Psalm xci. 11.) This was a temptation to presumption. He then took him to the summit of a very " high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of...the world and the glory of them, in a moment of time ; and said, All these things will I gire thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." This was a temptation...

...authority, is a proof of this. His temptation of the Son of God in the wilderness, when he " took Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them," evinced no small amount of influence over the material world. For our...

...have taken Jesus Christ up into an exceeding high mountain, and to have shown him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time, (Matt. iv. 8. Luke iv. 5.) : which transaction, a late scoffing antagonist of the Scriptures has termed...

...have taken Jusus Clirist up into an exceeding high mountain, and to have shown him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time, (Matt. iv. 8. Luke iv. 5.) : which transaction, a late scoffing antagonist of the Scriptures has termed...

...Dhawallagiri o'ertops a hay-rick, from which we know that the Devil shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time. " For as the hill of Basan, so is God's hill, even a high hill as the hill of Basan." The Bishop may...

...devil taketh him up into an exceed- Matt '"• a ing high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; in a moment of time M . i**« '»• *• nulise, (Gen. v. 29.) lasted for forty days—and so long were the rains descending,...