Luke 4:1 Douay-Rheims

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert,

Ambrose of Milan

A.D. 339–397 Patristic

There are three especial weapons which we are taught the devil is wont to arm himself with, that he may wound the soul of man. One is of the appetite, another of boasting, the third ambition. He began with that wherewith he had already conquered, namely, Adam. Let us then beware of the appetite, let us beware of luxury, for it is a weapon of the devil. But what mean his words, If thou art the Son of God, unless he had known that the Son would come, but supposed Him not to have come from the weakness of His body. He first endeavours to find Him out, then to tempt Him. He professes to trust Him as God, then tries to deceive Him as man.

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A.D. 397 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:1-4

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