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1 7| done against Him by way of temptation. "Behold," it says, "a certain 2 7| s some occasion for the temptation. What could they have thought 3 7| be in Him which required temptation? The question, to be sure, 4 7| on the announcement of a temptation. And yet no temptation, 5 7| a temptation. And yet no temptation, when aiming at the discovery 6 7| point which prompts the temptation by its doubtfulness, falls 7 7| question which compels the temptation whilst raising the doubt. 8 7| that they meant by their temptation to inquire about a point 9 7| than brothers. Thus is the temptation about His birth unsuitable, 10 7| present. But the artifice of a temptation might have been thwarted 11 7| to bear the shame of the temptation. There being, then, no suitable 12 7| suitable occasion for a temptation, the announcement that His 13 9| hungered under the devil's temptation; He thirsted with the woman