not want to be torn apart in your inner life, then give yourself entirely to me—and I shall make you great in this world, in hatred against God and in power against him.” In this manner Jesus suffers the temptation in the flesh, the lofty spiritual temptation, and finally the total temptation as such, and yet in all three instances only the one temptation against the word of God. Even Jesus’s temptation is not a heroic struggle of the human being against evil forces, as we gladly and lightly would