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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: J. Murray Subjects: Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XII ' MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH. Luke iv. 4. The narrative from which the text is taken is commonly called ' the temptation of Christ'; it is found with slight variations of form, near the beginning of the two Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke; and the subject of it is just alluded to in the Gospel of St. Mark. The externals of the scene which is described by the Evangelist are strange and unfamiliar to us; we can hardly place them before the mind's eye; rarely, if ever, have they been made the subject of a picture. The powers of good and evil meet together in the persons of Christ and Satan; in the desert among the wild beasts, at the top of a mountain, on the roof of the temple. The temptations of the world are set against the Spirit of God. The first temptation is directed to the bodily appetites: the Lord had been fasting forty days, and was afterwards an hungered. The power of evil taking advantage of the situation, says mockingly, Preached at Balliol, April 20, 1879. THE TEMPTATION 203 'If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.' To which Christ replies by the citation of a singular and allegorical passage in the book of Deuteronomy, in which the manna or bread of heaven is contrasted with ordinary bread: ' Man shall not live by bread alone'; or, as the words are given in the Gospel of St. Matthew which follows more closely the original text, ' Man shall not live by bread alone, but by ev...

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