4:1. The wilderness—Supposed by some to have been in Judea; by others to have been that great desert of Horeb or Sinai, where the children of Israel were tried for forty years, and Moses and Elijah fasted forty days. 6. I give it to whomsoever I will—Not so, Satan. It is God, not thou, that putteth down one, and setteth up another: although sometimes Satan, by God’s permission, may occasion great revolutions in the world. 13. A convenient season—In the garden of Gethsemane, Luke 22:53.
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