On the Temptation of Christ

On the Temptation of Our Lord Memra 12. On the Temptation of Our Lord. Again of him, when it is his, the twelfth memra. On the Temptation of Our Lord. And it is recited on the first Sunday of Lent. A supplication. Blessed is the fast of the one who showed us the way to go forth to life without end. Our brethren. New sounds heard Satan among the dead, of the living, voices and sounds, the sound of the living. The rebel heard the sound of the living from Gabriel, and he was seized by the trembling of what is this new thing that has happened. The chief of the angels asked after the welfare of the daughter of the living, and he cried out a greeting with good tidings good towards the living. "Peace to you, Mary," the spirit cried out in the ears of Mary, and the evil one wailed and the demons mocked the sound of her wailing. "Our Lord is with you," the angel cried out to the daughter of the living, and the depths of the abyss were covered over by the sound of the living. The son of the Most High called the messenger to the son of the daughter of men, and Satan was shamed and his hosts sat in mourning. Hallelujah. The man of spirit interpreted among the earthlings, and the demons trembled and Satan, the head of their ranks, cried out. One spirit proclaimed in her womb to one woman, and on the day of his birth many cried out hope to the living. Good hope the spirits cried out to the mortals, and the rebel died at the sound of the tidings of the life of the living. The sound of the tidings was spoken from every mouth, and the living rejoiced, the spiritual ones making the demons mourn.

Hear, O hear the clear voice of this one who comes, and like a firstborn he chooses men by the terror of his light. The living, the great mystery of his salvation was proclaimed, and his signs were hidden passages after her words. The voice of the son of the good roots was like thunder; his voice thundered. When he cried out that the sacrifice was complete and the sacrifice was approaching, the sacrifice was complete; the Mosaic sacrifice was being offered, and the sacrifice of the conduct of spiritual life was brought near. The pure lamb covers the pure one, the high priest purifies the blemishes, and by his purity he hides iniquity and gives life. The lords of the mysteries called him a messenger to his sending, and he showed that he is lord also of the judge who chooses all. These voices proclaimed men and hearers, and the good father cast the tone of his voice and sealed the letter. These voices the rebel heard, the tempter of men, and he was enraged against the voices that surrounded him. New voices were spoken by speakers concerning the man who is like a man and higher than a man. As he looked at him as a man, so also the rebel was enraged against the voices that surrounded him. In the second house the rebel stood, the tempter of men, and he did not know whether a man or God was called. If a man was called, the voices above him cast him down; if God was called, his corporeality testified that he was a man.

The riding of his body was showing him to be wholly human, and the power of his words was proclaiming him to be divine. His baptism and his birth were being discussed in relation to his humanity, and his tidings concerning the substance that dwelt in him. By the power of substance, even Satan was being revealed, that he is like a man and yet his power is high above man. In the greatness of his power, the Accuser was amazed, and he was standing opposite two in one man. By his baptism, the womb that bore him, the senses that his signs bore, and this that he is human, which the senses perceive, were being stirred. He was separated from the voice without bodily union, and this is high above the son of man in flesh. He took milk, he received nurture, not from labor, for these witnesses of natures that he is a pure man. He was baptized like men, from the son of man like a deficient one, and this is evident that he was deficient in relation to his humanity. The Spirit descended, the Father proclaimed that this beloved one is here the divine power that is stronger than man. A son of man ascended from the waters in body and soul, and the Spirit descended and stood by his side without change. By the power of the Spirit, the Adam of two was being guided, and in the opposite direction he was being amazed at his hidden power. Hard bonds were striking him, the slanderer, and he was being shown that he is near to him and that he is not near.

Like a woman in labor, he was writhing in his loins, and he was thinking that by means of some contrivance he might complete his plan. A rebellious spirit was stirring within his thoughts, and he was eager to approach him as one approaches a fire. But whenever he would give him the opportunity to approach, he would recoil, and through sufferings he would seek his own pains, if he were sensitive. As in the case of Adam, he was looking at him, at the son of Adam, and he was hoping to cause him to stumble, as he had done to Adam. In an Adam-like manner, he was preparing to engage with him, and he was being cut off from the hidden side that was laughing at him. One of the thorns was bringing him a mouthful of wrath, and he was being agitated to speak with him, a word openly. Thirty years he was being weighed against his words, until he heard that voice, "This is my beloved." This voice cast a tremor into his forces and loosed a cry from the hardness of their thoughts. As if from a garment, the good natures were drawn by the voice of the father, and they hastened together to tie a mystery upon the mystery of life. The mystery of iniquity the rebellious one tied, and his forces, that he might make a contest with the man who was more righteous than he. With the zeal with which he was wholly zealous, the all-consuming one, he began to stir like that serpent in paradise. He was likening himself to that serpent, and he did not know that the serpent was not like the serpent.

He was calling him a second Adam, and in that likeness he was trying him with the pains of the body. He was reminding the bodily one of the pains of the body, and like a lover he was offering him the weapons of deceit. He was eager for the desert, that the lover of the desert might go out with him, where no sacrifice is offered to the earthly ones. Like an athlete he was training himself for the contest, that he might see if there were in him weapons of deceit that resemble Adam's. With all human pains he was tormenting himself, in the hope that perhaps he might escape from his trials. The sounds of his wiles were disturbing him toward the contest, and he was striving to approach his side artfully. Artfully the craftsman wrought the instruments of his wiles, and he set snares and spread and offered him the weapons of his contest. He arranged false snares like a wile within his thought, and he exerted his strength and concealed the wile of his cunning. He sought a sacrifice in which to show the weapons of his stratagems, and upon the sacrifice he mounted snares that would catch the snares. The sacrifice was prepared to go to the snare of his all, and he was sitting and cutting off that he might swallow his all. He himself brought the contest near, and he offered open battle, and he was seeking himself while being sought, lest he fall. The battle cast him down to the wrestling of the one more cunning than he, and he was thinking that perhaps he might become a laughingstock to the demons.

He was contending with him in the pains of the body, and like a lover of pain he was offering him the pains of the body. With the armor of the spirit he was arming the spirit against the pains of the body, and he sent him to make a camp in the desert with the saints. Like the response of a wrestler, he was preparing the wrestler, and where the chief of the wrestlers wished, the athlete went forth. Athletically the athlete of righteousness went forth, and he was training his whole self in the armor of the spirit. The powers of heaven sent with him the force of his elect, that they might be witnesses and spectators of his athletic contest. Like a theater, the Lord of the world set the world, and the powers of heaven in the ranks of the wrestlers of the athletes. A contest was taking place for the sake of the world; a contest was taking place, and beautifully it was training the heavens in their praises. In bitterness they were from that time when Adam sinned, and they were waiting for when Adam would conquer through Adam. For the day of victory the lovers of the race were preparing, and they were hoping that the race would conquer through the son of the race. For forty days one wrestler stood opposite one, the chief of the air and the pains of the body, a spectacle of the mountain. A spectacle of the mountain was shown to the eyes of the spectators, as spirit and body were contending without hands. Without hands the bodily one was contending; spiritually he was seizing the chief of the air.

He chose the harsh fast as a weapon with which to contend, lest the gluttonous slanderer of the power of food prevail. Without food he approached the battle with the ascetic, that the vision of the demons might be a pain raised above pain. By means of abstinence he was teaching those who were with him that there was another power of the ascetic greater than all. In the multitude of his power he was revealing himself as the chief of their ranks, on account of that excellent one, the contest of all the ascetic disciplines. All the ascetic disciplines, the hunt of pains, the rebel arranged, that he might escape from his afflictions and become a mockery. Great was the crust of his earth from the silence of the contests, and it was not like the crust that he arranged with all the mortals. A great purpose he was arranging for the heart of his soul, and he was being cut off that he might take up the struggle with the body. By his purpose and his boldness the body also was being revealed, and it gave him a hook that he might approach him in the guise of hunger. Forty days the faster fasted from provisions, and at the end his nature followed its natural ways. In that faster the nature of Adam was being revealed, on account of that he thought to end his fast with the fast of his own entrails. Even Satan in this matter was being troubled, that he did not transgress the order of the measured days that the faster fasts. By the hunger of his flesh the rebel looked at the bodily, and he approached him and saw that it was the body whose hunger was hidden.

He saw that the sensations of his body were troubled like all bodies, and he rejoiced in himself that this was the time of the temptations of the body. That time which was remembered in Paradise, when he saw Adam being overcome by the food of the fruit. As Adam looked upon his son Adam, and in that likeness he offered him the desire for fruit. The temptation of the body was awakened in his bodily body, and as if to the body he agitated him to ask for food. With food he reconciled the house of Adam, that error might be with him, and he rejoiced that outside he reconciles him also, like that one. The reconciliation of bread he took before him in the likeness of a mirror, and began to show the forms of deception to his adversary. He spoke the word that would become bread, a pure interpretation, and behold it is known that truly the Son of God you are. Command the hungry not to feel, like the Creator, and do something that befits the name that is called in his name. Change the stones from the hardness that strikes in them, and place in them the nature of edible bread. By means of deeds reveal the demonstration of the sounds upon you, and behold the greatness of your rank is revealed to the eyes of the beholders. To many beholders the father of that beloved proclaimed, If you are beloved, perform a wonder and confirm your love. Thousands heard that voice of the Son of God you are, they spread your name by means of the deed that would be from you.

He acted like your father, making a deed that resembles the work of his hands, and he cast a hand, both eloquent and silent, into the midst of your authority. He spoke the word that fills the wonder before the beholders, and your praises were seen by the wonders of the power of your utterances. In the desert you were, and the tempter could not find your offering; command the hungry and terrify them as a lord. You came as lord to that voice that was pursuing you; fulfill your will in the completeness of the word of your mouth. He saw your fasting like that which your companions saw, and he did something that established the fasting of your body. Your companions also fasted a fast that resembles yours, and after the offering they stood to complete their fasts. Yours is great, the choice of your good name is better than theirs; perform the wonder that befits the one who is greater than his companions. It is fitting for you greatly to do something by a change of something, so that your deed may be a witness to the freedom of the word of your mouth. These things interpret the head of the air with the head of the body, when he thought that he would cast down the net of his disturbances. This one took the lead and seized his errors, and he erred greatly and did not catch his claws in the body of the Messiah. This contest he made in former times, striking against contests, and made it a mockery, the bodily Augustus. In this garment he healed his weakness, bold in his hunger, and he humbled his weakness, the nature that is clothed in mortality.

He brought the spirit to the contest of the spirit, the spirit to the corporeal, and gave the spiritual and conquered the body, heavy with sensations. With the fear of the body, he cut off the desire for the passions and offered the desire in the likeness of the senses to the corporeal. The wicked senses offered the wicked one to the skilled one of the air, and the wicked one turned his face towards the one who would judge him. With his face, he struck the sense of the evil Adam of the two, just as the Creator also did to his sacrifice of Cain. As if to a demon, he trampled the counsel of the all-devouring one and laughed and mocked his childish, deceptive tricks. Wisely he gave the word to the one lacking air, and with the law he sealed the mouth of the blasphemer. Lawfully he cut off the judgment of the evil one's guilt, so that those who know would know that he judges lawfully with him. With one word he loosed the bond of a multitude of filled things, by that which is written: that man does not live by bread alone. Not by bread alone does a man live; he showed the all-devouring one his folly, and the small, lowly portions of every scheme were lost and perished. The Creator was able to make man live without bread, and the word of the name of the Creator suffices for everything. In astonishment, from the confidence that he had been proud in, he was shamed and fled to the other portions of his chariot. Portion by portion he would exchange the agousta for him. He had thought that he would establish hope for his all-devouring nature.

He entertained a vain hope, the guilty one, concerning the victor, and did not know that his hope was cut off from victory. Over victory he was ashamed, his face confounded, when he supposed that there were means against the man. He spread out deceptive snares for the perfect one, to catch the soul, and covered his face with the beauty of the adornment of the eyes. With the adornment of the eyes he arranged all the varieties of beautiful ornaments, of gold and silver, also of pearl and precious stones. In a theatrical manner he arranged everything, though there was nothing, and set up a form, though there was no true form. As if for a man, he looked at the man from whom he came, because of this he arranged the likenesses of the love of man. The love of money is very beloved to mortals, and on account of this he preserved its sweetness for the purse of the second. At the first purse he offered him the fruit of the contest, and at that of the second, with the love of money, a sea of its swords. In this sea he saw that the thought of man was distressed, and he spread out his net over the faces of the dry land before the Redeemer. With the garment of money he covered the earth in the likeness of water, and did not know that the skilled mind was illuminating within him. He, in this schema, arranged his limbs for his tricks, and saw in secret what was openly scattered, the tricks of his madness. He arranged, as it were, varieties of beautiful ornaments, though there was no face, and brought before him a spectacle that would weaken his strength.

He opened the treasury of her hidden things, the evil one, and stood, the fool, in the midst of gold when there was no gold. He cried out boastfully, with a proud mind, toward the meek one: "Come, see the man, something that is difficult to be shown. Come, see the men," said the evil one to the man of the depth. "The whole world, which I hold, is under my authority. This world and the riches that are within it, and whatever I wish, I give to him if he worships me. Worship me alone, as the Lord who rules over all, and take for yourself the world in exchange for the confession of your mouth. Acknowledge my lordship and call me Lord, as is fitting, and I will give you a good reward, the world and its wealth. The world and its wealth I give to you with one word, and you give me worship, a fitting debt. Take for yourself the world, the man who is worldly, and you can, by the word of your mouth, worship me. Give me your mouth filled with promise, like a vessel, and take for yourself something that is not exhausted. From what? From the entrances. See how great is the greatness of the rank of the whole world, and how small seems the worship, the word that you will pay me. See how much I love toward man or human, and I do not demand heavy things from those who love me. Love alone I demand from him who hears me. Hear me and see how much I labor for him who hears me.

He made his voice heard, the evil one, against the son of the race, and the son of the race stood before the tricks of the deceiver. The good deceiver put on the garment of beautiful things, so that the good one might hear, who desired to make the worship of his Lord. The mighty one cast into him the arrow of deception, and it pierced his heart, and the bitterness that was hidden in him came forth. The evil bitterness was hidden in him, the evil-minded one, and our Lord revealed it by the clear word of his mouth. From the Scriptures he turned to confront the adversary, and taught him the order of what he was to know, that he is nothing. "Have you heard the Scriptures or have you not heard, O rebel, that the Lord is one, and to him alone is worship due? One is the Lord who rules over all divinely, and there is no other who shares in his divinity. To a non-god the name 'god' is not fitting, nor for a servant to attain the rank of his master. A servant you are, even you, O boaster who exalts yourself with pride. Know your own measure and do not be troubled over your master. Know that you are a servant, a servant of the one who was made by his maker, and do not snatch for yourself the rank of your Lord arrogantly. Cease, my Lord, from the interpretations of your arrogance, and do not interpret for me the vain fable of your blasphemy. I know you and the interpretations of your cunning, and it is not hidden from me that you are the one who errs and leads astray, the deceiver.

Go, you erring one, go astray with your deeds as is your custom, and take the crown of victory; cast your silver upon your face. You have given nothing, and you have taken nothing that you desired. You have brought accusations, and your contest has been in vain. Go, contend with your own cunning, you with yourself, and take your reward in the shame of the face of your wickedness. Go, wicked one, see your standing, how it is false, and remain apart from the company of the true ones who have not spread you out. Behold, your wickedness has been revealed behind your companies. Go, prepare for yourself another company and love the virgins. Three witnesses raise their hands in all your actions, and the third condemns you in the three generations. The free one ascended from the pit of the two generations, and changed his place and the victories of the generation of his freedom. Flee from the desert where you thought you would conquer, and begin to arrange battle in the plain for the sake of the living and the seeing. In the midst of the plain he wished to show his cunning, that you might not be afraid; the men became witnesses to my victory. Over victory he was contending, full of sins, and he did not know that the sin of sins was increasing for him. To the temple of holiness the defiled one ascended to contend, to where it is easy for everyone to see his wickedness. To the great height the Lord of the lowly raised him, and he stood marveling at that equality which was his custom.

Cast yourself down from this height to the depth below. And if you are the one who stands firm, without stumbling, you are truly a son. The Son of God called you to many contests. Fly upon the air like the Son of God. How is it, O man, that the voices of those who were hunting you have ceased? Descend from the height, and behold, the heights receive you with honors. It is written upon the stones that the one without stumbling is proclaimed in the land, while being protected by spiritual angels. You are one of the stones, and the rank of your greatness is also from the stones. Persist in your stony nature through the vanity that is over your stony nature. Test your strength through the vanity of the heavens, which receive you upon their hands as it is written. They will not leave you among difficulties, however difficult they may be, because of what is commanded by God concerning your protection. Persist in the helps that protect you through deeds. And behold, the side of the stones is stirred to rebel in stony nature. You, O man, seek a path through trial toward difficulties, and show everyone the crown of recompense that comes from your stony nature. O fool, how much you trusted to hide snares! O insignificant one, how much you leaped to go into hidden snares! O trampler, how much you trampled to cut off portions! O wise one, how much you became wise and decided to go! O wrestler, how much you wrestled to complete his creation! O wanderer, how much you wandered to conquer in order!

O the spirits, how they fly, their contests spiritual! O the bodies, how they tremble, their senses, and they make a contest. O the contest that took place on the earth, not customary, when he came to the world to take up a contest with the spirits. A single body made a contest with the spirits, and they began to be contested spiritually. By the power of the spirit, the body overcame the mighty one, and the contests of the Messiah were revealed in the victory of the contest. The contestants, the contestants, the spirits stood in that contest, and they were amazed how the body overcame the spirit. A great wonder was spoken among the contestants, that this new thing that happened among their contests. The mortals saw that he contended with the mighty one, and they were amazed and wondered that mortality conquered the tempter. In the victory of the contest and the defeat of evil, they were being proclaimed, and they were praising the power of the Creator who conquers the contest. "Glory to the power that conquered the contest!" cried the spirits, and he showed the world with his greatness through a human being. A single human being made a contest with Satan, and Satan was defeated, and the contest conquered, and he conquered the contest. The human being conquered in the arena that he made with the mighty one, and the mighty one was defeated by the contest with the human being. In that contest, the contest of height was being proclaimed, and they were marveling at the victory that was not customary.

without custom they saw victory and defeat and they praised and cast down the one who raised the body of man the body of man they saw and it was stretched out against Satan and the man stood to pay the debts of the fathers of his body. By the desire for fruit, Adam saw through the counsel of the Evil One and by the craving, the son of Adam restrained the hunger of Adam. The offspring of Adam followed Adam, the helper of Adam and he humbled and released him from the authority of his tyranny. The spirits before him took up a contest with him openly and he raised and cast them down and made them a mockery in the evil name. To the stadium full of afflictions he went up with him and he thrust and went to harsh punishments with the feet of the air. All the afflictions the rebel arranged before the body and he divided and went to the three contests of the generations. Three generations the fool took up with the wise one and at their end the son of Adam conquered and saw Satan. By the desire for bread he bound every nerve of the nerves of man and the man leaped over the desires of humanity. By the love of money he arranged all the images of the lovers of money and he bound and went up, the athlete, as if nothing. By the love of glory he buried all the snares of the hunters of man and he leaped and went and passed without injury. Without injury the athlete ascended from the contest. He was going forth from the spectators of the contest.

Victoriously he triumphed, the bodily athlete, and guiltily the head of the air paid the debt. The head of the air made a contest with the son of man, and man conquered, and the guilty one paid the debt of man. Now that the contests and the debt are finished, he seeks how the contest was and what its cause was. Its cause is this: the debt that was in the place of the covenant, that man paid and the evil one triumphed until now. By the debt of his debts the Adamite race was in debt, and the violent demons were being punished for his debts. He who called him his own image saw his indebtedness, and it did not please him when the demons trampled his image. He went to that image that had paid the debt in the covenant now, and he formed him in that same likeness as that first one. Without marriage he formed Adam from the living one, and without the bond of partnership he formed the last one. From the race that owed sin, he loosed sin through the son of man whom he formed in a spirit without marriage. By the power of the spirit he formed the son of man from the daughter of man, and filled him with spirit and called him by the name Son of God. God called that son of man Son of God, and Satan trembled at the name of the son of man who was raised above man. Behold, this name made him come to the contest, and he was inquiring when the place for his trial would be.

The strength of his nature was being tested like a strong man, and he did not know how to extinguish the flame of his desire. But when he gave me the opportunity to approach him, he was being revealed and cut off by divine command. But when he allowed me to approach him with the weapons of the lower regions, I taught him that he too is a man full of the lower regions. When he desired to bring forth the desert far from humanity, I went out with him and sought his strength in human sufferings. He is entirely a man from humanity, full of sufferings, and what is it that he should trample sufferings when he is a sufferer? But when the strength of the Creator rested from its help, it gave me a place to enter against him in a human manner. For he was being tested in him, the helper of man, and he loved man before the desire of his mysteries. He saw that it was fitting to make a contest with the son of man, and he stirred up his spirit against the son of Adam and sent him to meet him. It is written that he went out in spirit from the world to the outer desert; indeed, it is evident that he was being guided by the power of the spirit. The power of the Creator commanded him to go to a certain place, and when he saw the helper, he went out with him to see the end. The spirit revealed to him the manner of the spirit that makes a contest, and taught him the ways in which the events of the slanderer would occur. He showed him that the helper of the guilty one makes an offering with Adam, and anoints him with a spirit that cannot be touched by the hand of the spirit.

His wisdom, the wisdom of the strong man, held the contest spiritually, and as though he descended into a stadium filled with pains. By the power of the spirit he accomplished everything that the athlete of the spirit accomplished, while his will was binding his self to the spirit that receives. He with the spirit and the spirit with him made a contest, and he paid the debt of that fall in Paradise. That fall by which Adam fell, he paid it for the evil one, so that he might know that there is in Adam a power of victory. The son of Adam conquered and made Adam victorious over his faults, and he struck the line and struck with him the camp of demons. A harsh turning, the son of Adam turned upon his accuser, and there was not sufficient time to give a word in response to a word. Three times the cunning one asked him for the foolish woman, and with one word he spread out and showed her the fruits. Three generations he held with him of Augustus, and at their end he struck him to the ground as though dead. Three counsels the son of Adam struck the son of Gehenna, and there was wailing, crying, and lamentation over the defeat of his forces. Three arrows the bow of righteousness loosed, and thirdly he burned the bowstring that was with his accuser. Three names were destined that he would proclaim among the lands, and he proclaimed them mysteriously in the bowstring that he made. By that mystery, the power that was hidden in him conquered in the battle, and his mystery became a proclamation that would reveal it after his death.

This is the reason for the contest which he made with Satan, to redeem his race and to reveal the mystery of the power of his essence. Mysteriously hidden in him were these things: the redemption of man and the power of his essence which is not perceived. In the contest which he made, he revealed both by the power of that chosen one, and he confirmed that he is victorious by the victory which conquered the evil one. By the power of that chosen one, he conquered the adversary of guilty men and he added the good to that victory over his violence. By violence he diminished the bonds of the pains of men, while that will of his chosen one pressed him from all sides. The hidden will was loosed in the depth of the chariot of his body, and the hand of the subduer was acting in it to subdue all. To subdue all, the hand of the subduer was acting to accomplish, and for man to complete the debt to his sender. To the limit of pains, man was captive from the beginning, and man went out and freed the captivity of the house of his fathers. To the destruction he went out to accomplish the redemption of his race, the lover of his race, to the place where that captor who captured his race desired. The captivity of man, the Son freed man from the rebel, and he plundered his power and made him a laughingstock and an evil shame. Man, by his victory, conquered the adversary who conquered man, and by his victory he raised men and lowered demons. He lowered demons in the contest which he made with the chief of demons, and he took from them the armor which they took from his fathers.

He set up the contest with the orders of his race in a naked manner, so that he would not be disturbed to make a contest with man. Man made a great contest with their orders, and the spiritual powers were amazed at the power of his victory. The spectators of the contest saw the power of his victory, and they acclaimed him as a king who is praised by them. They wove a crown of victory and presented it to the athlete, the man, and they praised and confessed the power of his might with a cry of "Hail." The athlete of righteousness conquered all pains, for even the evil one confined all of them in the three contests. The three contests with the righteous one were lacking to the one of his race, and he humbled the order that was equal to the generations. He who humbles that righteous one who humbles his race, he is with the power that strengthens his humility. The power of the Creator made him victorious over the adversary, while the Creator was hidden in the glory of his humanity. In his humanity the humble one was hidden humbly, and his power from him was helping the man from him. The man from him was contending with Satan, not the Creator as the perverse of heart think. For it was not the Creator who was contending with the pains of the body, and the witnesses who made a contest with man.

The demons contended with man in the desert, with the man whose hunger was after his fast. His hunger after his fast of forty days, and the tempter knew that his hunger testified to his humanity. He saw that the body’s vessel was weakened by privation, and he approached him to offer him the desire of the body. He saw that his body was weakened by hunger; the body relaxes, and he thought that perhaps he could entice him with the desire for bread. The desire for bread was stirred in his body, that of the second Adam, in the same manner that he had enticed Adam with the desire of the body. They hid his snares and destroyed his traps and overturned his wiles, and no place was left for him that was free of ambushes. The rebel and his hosts were wholly vanquished, and the son of Adam wholly conquered and prevailed over his race. The guilty one of Adam’s race now owes praise to the one who raised up Adam’s race through a son of his race.