Luke 4:9
Douay-Rheims
And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and he said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence.
Ambrose of Milan
It is the fate of boasting, that while a man thinks he is climbing higher, he is by his pretension to lofty deeds brought low. Hence it follows, And he said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, throw thyself down.
Source details
A.D. 397 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:9-13
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.