Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. In warm weather vast numbers of wasps and other insects are caught by bottles of syrup, into which they are easily enticed by the sweet and tempting fluid, but are unable to escape, and so are drowned. Temptation often assails us through our lawful appetites. Christ, whose temptations were types of ours, was invited by Satan to make bread to satisfy His hunger .... As a cunning fowler sets his limed ears of corn to catch sparrows in a hard frost or great snow, when they are ready to starve. (Diez.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.WEB: When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. |
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