7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the woman suffers, being tempted , and so has his heel bruised; but the serpent is quite baffled in his temptations, and so has his head broken; and our Lord Jesus comes off a Conqueror, and so secures not on…
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