William Burkitt Notes and Observations - Matthew 4:2

William Burkitt Notes and Observations - Matthew 4:2 - 4:2

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William Burkitt Notes and Observations - Matthew 4:2 - 4:2

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Observe here, How the divine power upheld the human nature of Christ without food. What Moses did at the giving of the law, Christ doth at the beginning of the gospel namely, fast forty days and forty nights.

Christ hereby intended our admiration, not our imitation: or, if our imitation, of the action only, not of the time. Christ teaches us, by fasting and prayer to prepare ourselves for a conflict with our spiritual enemies; as he prepared himself by fasting to grapple with the tempter, so shall we.