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Mat 4:1. Τότε, then) sc. on His baptism.-ἀνήκθη, He was led up) sc. towards Jerusalem, by an inward impulse.-εἰς τὴν ἔρημον, into the wilderness) a wilder part than that mentioned in ch. Mat 3:1.-ὑπὸ Τοῦ Πνεύματος, by the Spirit) sc. the Holy Spirit; see ch. Mat 3:16.-πειρασθῆναι, to be tempted) This temptation is a sample of our Lord’s whole state of humiliation (exinanitionis), and an epitome of all the temptations (not only moral, but still more especially spiritual), which the devil has contrived from the beginning.-ὑπὸ τοῦ Διαβόλου, by the Devil) The LXX. generally render the Hebrew שטן, Satan or Adversary, by Διάβολος, Devil or Accuser; only in 1 Kings 11, and there twice or thrice, they translate it Σατάν, Satan.