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Then the devil taketh him up - rather, “conducteth Him.”
into the holy city - so called (as in Isa 48:2; Neh 11:1) from its being “the city of the Great King,” the seat of the temple, the metropolis of all Jewish worship.
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple - rather, “the pinnacle” - a certain well-known projection. Whether this refers to the highest summit of the temple, which bristled with golden spikes [Josephus, Antiquities, 5.5, 6]; or whether it refers to another peak, on Herod’s royal portico, overhanging the ravine of Kedron, at the valley of Hinnom - an immense tower built on the very edge of this precipice, from the top of which dizzy height Josephus says one could not look to the bottom [Antiquities, 15.11, 5] - is not certain; but the latter is probably meant.