Matthew 4:4
Douay-Rheims
Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
He said not, ‘I live not,’ but, Man doth not live by bread alone, that the Devil might still ask, If thou be the Son of God. If He be God, it is as though He shunned to display what He had power to do; if man, it is a crafty will that His want of power should not be detected.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:3-4
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.