Augustine of Hippo, on Matt 4:8

“Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,”

“(De Cons. Ev. ii. 16.) Luke has not given the temptations in the same order as Matthew; so that we do not know whether the pinnacle of the temple, or the ascent of the mountain, was first in the action; but it is of no importance, so long as it is only clear that all of them were truly done.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.