“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.”
The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world — the second temptation in Luke is the kingdoms temptation (Matthew reverses the order of the second and third). All the kingdoms of the world shown in an instant communicates the visionary character of the experience — not a literal mountain from which all kingdoms are visible but a supernatural showing of the world's political domains.
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