Matthew 4:8. An exceeding high mountain. Its situation can only be conjectured; the Mount of Olives, which was relatively high; others, the mountain in the wilderness (Quarantania), Nebo, Tabor.

Sheweth him. Luke adds, ‘in a moment of time,' this may imply some supernatural extension of vision. Magical influence on the part of Satan is less probable than an actual pointing out of the regions in sight, and a vivid description of the adjoining realms

All the kingdoms of the world; not to be restricted to Palestine, a narrower meaning which ‘world' occasionally has, but never in such a phrase. It becomes intelligible on the theory suggested: actual vision with added rhetorical description.

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