To Say These Things Again No Harm for You

Matthew 4:7
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Volume	Gospel of Matthew
Christian Bible part	New Testament

Matthew four:7 is the seventh verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Satan has transported Jesus to the pinnacle of the Temple of Jerusalem and told Jesus that he should throw himself down as God in Psalm 91 promised that no damage would befall him. In this verse Jesus quotes scripture to brushoff the devil.

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The original Koine Greek, according to Novum Testamentum Graece, reads:

ἔφη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς πάλιν γέγραπται

οὐκ ἐκπειράσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου.

In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:

Jesus said unto him, Information technology is written again,

Thou shalt non tempt the Lord thy God.

The World English Bible translates the passage as:

Jesus said to him, "Once again, it is written,

'You lot shall not exam the Lord, your God.'"

For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 4:7.

Analysis [edit]

As in his response to the first temptation in Matthew 4:4 Jesus again responds by quoting scripture. This quotation comes from Deuteronomy 6:xvi a verse that comes 2 chapters before that quoted in iv:4. As with the earlier quotation information technology uses the verbal translation found in the Septuagint. In this section of Deuteronomy Moses is instructing the Israelites on proper behaviour. In total Deuteronomy six:16 reads "Do not test the Lord your God every bit y'all did at Massah." This is a reference to the events of Exodus 17:5 where the Israelites wandering in the desert doubted God was with them (cf. Psalm 95:nine; Numbers 14:22ff).^[one] This passage is thus seen as the clearest evidence that the temptation narrative shows how Jesus avoided making the aforementioned errors equally the Israelites.^[1] The quoting of Moses' dictate is also seen every bit a rejection of Antinomianism. Satan had originally quoted from Psalms, but Fortna notes that Jesus replies with a more key verse by quoting from the Torah.^[two]

Thomas Long notes that later the child Jesus had followed the journeying of State of israel into Egypt, the adult Jesus retraced the adventure of Israel in the wilderness.^[iii] The temptations that Jesus faced echoes the very temptations, even in the same order, that the Israelites experienced subsequently the exodus from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 16, 17 and 19–32).^[3]

In the Gospel of Luke this temptation is the terminal one, and that is the ordering most commonly used past Christians. Past tradition afterward Jesus rebuffs Satan it is Satan who plummets from the meridian of the temple, something frequently depicted in art and recounted in some particular in Paradise Regained.

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Hilary of Poitiers: "Thus beating down the efforts of the Devil, He professes Himself both God and Lord."

Pseudo-Chrysostom: "Yet He says non, Thou shalt not tempt me thy Lord God; but, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God; which every man of God when tempted past the Devil might say; for whoso tempts a man of God, tempts God."

Rabanus Maurus: "Otherwise, it was a suggestion to Him, as man, that He should seek past requiring some phenomenon to know the greatness of God's power."

Augustine: "It is a part of audio doctrine, that when human has whatever other means, he should not tempt the Lord his God."

Theodotus: "And it is to tempt God, in anything to betrayal 1's self to danger without crusade."

Jerome: "the required texts are taken from the book of Deuteronomy only, that He might shew the sacraments of the second Law."

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Bruce 2014, Matthew iv:i-11.
2. ^ Fortna, Robert. The Gospel of Matthew - Scholars Bible Polebridge Press, 2005 pg. 49
3. ^ ^{a b} Long 1997, p. 36.

Sources [edit]

• Bruce, F.F. (2014). Matthew. Vol. i. BookBaby. ISBN9781909680296.
• Long, Thomas One thousand. (1997). Matthew. Westminster Bible companion. Westminster John Knox Printing. ISBN9780664252571.

Further reading [edit]

• Albright, W.F. and C.Due south. Mann. "Matthew." The Anchor Bible Series. New York: Doubleday & Visitor, 1971.
• Clarke, Howard W. The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Get-go Gospel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
• Colina, David. The Gospel of Matthew. Thousand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981

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