![]() There was another part which was uninhabited, but by "wild beasts" and here Christ was led, and with these he was, ( Mark 1:13 ) all alone, retired from the company of men could have no assistance from any, and wholly destitute of any supply: so that Satan had a fair opportunity of trying his whole strength upon him having all advantages on his side he could wish for. of Judea, into the more remote parts of it for he was before in this wilderness, where John was preaching and baptizing but in that part of it which was inhabited. The place where he was led was "into the wilderness", i.e. When he is said to be led up, the meaning is, that he was led up from the low parts of the wilderness, where he was, to the higher and mountainous parts thereof, which were desolate and uninhabited. Being "led" by him, denotes an internal impulse of the Spirit in him, stirring him up, and putting him upon going into the wilderness: and this impulse being very strong and vehement, another Evangelist thus expresses it "the Spirit driveth him, ( ekballei) thrusts him forth into the wilderness", ( Mark 1:12 ) though not against his will to which was added an external impulse, or outward rapture, somewhat like that action of the Spirit on Philip. In this may be observed the action of the Spirit in and upon Christ heīy "the Spirit" is meant the same spirit of God, which had descended and lighted on him in a bodily shape, with the gifts and graces of which he was anointed, in an extraordinary manner, for public service of which he was "full", ( Luke 4:1 ) not but that he was endowed with the Holy Ghost before which he received without measure from his Father but now this more eminently and manifestly appeared and by this Spirit was he led both the Syriac and the Persic versions read, "by the holy Spirit". The occasion of them, or the opportunity given to the tempter, is spoken of in this and the following verse. The occasion, nature, and success of these temptations are here related. ![]() The Evangelist having finished his account of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ of his ministry and baptism and particularly of the baptism of Christ when the Holy Ghost came down upon him in a visible and eminent manner whereby he was anointed for his public work, according to ( Isaiah 61:1 ) proceeds to give a narration of his temptations by Satan, which immediately followed his baptism and of those conflicts he had with the enemy of mankind before he entered on his public ministry.
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