And Jesus was tempted. The “Captain of our salvation” was “made perfect through sufferings.”1 “In that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted.”2 The wilderness of Jericho and the Garden of Gethsemane—these witnessed His two most grievous struggles, and in these He triumphed wholly over the worst and most awful assaults of the enemy of souls; but during no part of the days of His flesh was He free from temptation, since otherwise His life had been no
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