“for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.”
Where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry — the forty days of testing echo Israel's forty years, Moses's forty days, and Elijah's forty-day journey. He ate nothing during those days communicates genuine physical privation — the testing occurs in the context of real hunger, real physical weakness. At the end of them he was hungry: the understatement is characteristic of Luke — forty days without food produces genuine, extreme hunger.
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Luke 4:2
“for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.”
Where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry — the forty days of testing echo Israel's forty years, Moses's forty days, and Elijah's forty-day journey. He ate nothing during those days communicates genuine physical privation — the testing occurs in the context of real hunger, real physical weakness. At the end of them he was hungry: the understatement is characteristic of Luke — forty days without food produces genuine, extreme hunger.
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Where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry — the forty days of testing echo Israel's forty years, Moses's forty days, and Elijah's forty-day journey. He ate nothing during those days communicates genuine physical privation — the testing occurs in the context of real hunger, real physical weakness. At the end of them he was hungry: the understatement is characteristic of Luke — forty days without food produces genuine, extreme hunger.