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Source: archive.org: Easton's Bible DictionaryTemptation definition and references: (1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God “tempted [Genesis 22: 1; R.V., ‘did prove’] Abraham;” and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deuteronomy 8:2), putting their faith and patience to the test. (2.) Ordinarily, however, the word means solicitation to that which is evil, and hence Satan is called “the tempter” (Matthew 4:3). Our Lord was in this way tempted in the wilderness. That temptation was not internal, but by a real, active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of obedience on his part. “Christ was led, driven. An unseen personal force bore him a certain violence is implied in the words” (Matthew 4:1-11).
The scene of the temptation of our Lord is generally supposed to have been the mountain of Quarantania (q.v.), “a high and precipitous wall of rock, 1,200 or 1,500 feet above the plain west of Jordan, near Jericho.”
Temptation is common to all (Daniel 12:10; Zechariah 13:9; Psalms 66:10; Luke 22:31, 40; Hebrews 11:17; James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:7; 4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph (Genesis 39), of David (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21), of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 32:31), of Daniel (Daniel 6), etc. So long as we are in this world we are exposed to temptations, and need ever to be on our watch against them.
Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical BibleTemptation definition and references: –General scriptures concerning Genesis 3:1-13; 20:6; Exodus 34:12-16;
Deuteronomy 7:25; 8:11-14,17,18; 13:3; 1 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 32:30,31; Psalms 119:165; Proverbs 1:10-17; 2:10-12,16;
4:14,15; 5:6-21; 6:27,28; 7:7-23; 9:15-17; 12:26; 13:14; 14:27; 16:29; 19:27; 28:10;
Ecclesiastes 7:26; Isaiah 33:15,16; Jeremiah 2:24,25; 35:5-7; Hosea 7:5; Amos 2:12; Matthew 4:1-11; 5:19; 12:45;
13:22; 18:6-9; 26:31,41; Mark 4:15,17; 10:21-25; 13:21,22; 14:38; Luke 4:1-13; 8:13,14;
11:4; 22:3,31,32,40,46; John 16:1,2; Romans 6:12-14; 7:5; 8:35-39; 12:21; 14:13,15,21;
1 Corinthians 7:5; 8:9-13; 10:13,28-32; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 11:3,14,15; 12:7; Galatians 4:14; 5:17; Ephesians 4:27;
6:11,13-17; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; Timothy 5:15; 6:9,10; 2imothy 3:13; Hebrews 2:18; 4:15; 12:3,4; James 1:2-4,12-16;
4:7; 1 Peter 1:6,7; 4:12; 5; 2 Peter 2:9,18; 3:17; 1 John 2:16,26; 4:4; Revelation 3:10; 12:10,11,17
–See Demons
–See Faith, Trial Of
–See Satan
–A Test Genesis 22:1-14; Deuteronomy 8:2,5; 13:1-3; 2 Chronicles 32:31; Job
1:8-22; 2:3-10; Psalms 66:10-13; Daniel 12:10; Zechariah 13:9; Hebrews 11:17; James 1:2,3,12; 1 Peter 1:6,7
–See Affliction, Design Of
–See Faith, Trial Of
–Leading Into
–Prayer against being led into Matthew 6:13; Luke 22:40
–Instances Of
–Abraham leads Pharaoh Genesis 12:18,19
–Abimelech Genesis 20:9
–Balak tempts Balaam Numbers 22; 23; 24
–The old prophet of Beth-el, the prophet of Judah 1 Kings
13:15-19
–Gideon leads the people of Israel into sin Judges 8:27
–Jeroboam leads the northern kingdom (Israel) into 1 Kings
15:30
–See Resistance To
–See Yielding To, below
–Resistance To Genesis 39:7-10; Nehemiah 4:9; Job 31:1,5-17,19-34,38-40;
Psalms 17:4; 73:2-26; 94:17,18; 119:101,110; Amos 4:12; Matthew 4:1-11; 24:42-44; 25:13; 26:38-42;
Mark 13:33-37; 14:37,38; Luke 4:1-13; 12:35-38; 21:33-36; 1 Corinthians 6:13; 1 Peter 4:7; Revelation 3:2,3
–Yielding To
–Instances Of
–Adam and Eve Genesis 3:1-19
–Sarah, to lie Genesis 12:13; 18:13-15; 20:13
–Isaac, to lie Genesis 26:7
–Jacob, to defraud Esau Genesis 27:6-13
–Balaam Numbers 22:15-22; 2 Peter 2:15
–Achan Joshua 7:21
–David, to commit adultery 2 Samuel 11:2-5
–To count the nation of Israel 1 Chronicles 21
–Solomon, to become an idolater through the influences of his
wives 1 Kings 11:4; Nehemiah 13:26
–The prophet of Judah 1 Kings 13:11-19
–Hezekiah 2 Kings 20:12-20; Isaiah 39:1-4,6,7
–Peter Matthew 26:69-74; Mark 14:67-71; Luke 22:55-60
Temptation refers to:—The English words ‘tempt’ and ‘temptation’ are in the OT with the exception of Malachi 3:15 , where a synonym bachan is used, the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of various forms of the root nissah , which is most frequently rendered ‘prove.’ In Genesis 22:1 RV [Note: Revised Version.] tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘God did prove Abraham.’ But RV [Note: Revised Version.] retains ‘temptation’ for ( a ) God’s testing of Pharaoh’s character and disposition ( Deuteronomy 4:34 , RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘ trials’ or ‘evidences’; cf. Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 29:3 ); ( b ) Israel’s distrustful putting of God Himself to the proof ( Deuteronomy 6:16; cf. Exodus 17:2; Exodus 17:7 , Numbers 14:22 , Psalms 78:18; Psalms 78:41; Psalms 78:56 ). In Psalms 95:8 RV [Note: Revised Version.] rightly keeps ‘ Massah’ as a proper name, the reference being to the historic murmuring at Rephidim ( Exodus 17:1 ff.; cf. Deuteronomy 33:8 , Psalms 81:7 ).
Driver ( ICC [Note: CC International Critical Commentary.] , on Deuteronomy 6:15 ) points out, in a valuable note, that ‘nissah is a neutral word, and means to test or prove a person, to see whether he will act in a particular way ( Exodus 16:4 , Judges 2:22; Judges 3:4 ), or whether the character he bears is well established ( 1 Kings 10:1 ).
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Search found 203 books and stories containing Temptation, The temptation, Temptations; (plurals include: Temptations, The temptations, Temptationses). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Summa Theologica (English translation) (by St. Thomas Aquinas)
Question. 41 - Of christ's temptation (four articles) < [Treatise on the incarnation]
Question. 97 - Of the temptation of God (four articles) < [Treatise on the cardinal virtues]
Question. 165 - Of our first parents' temptation (two articles) < [Treatise on fortitude and temperance]
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (by Philip Schaff)
Chapter XVII - That temperateness and the endurance of temptations must be given to us by the Lord < [The Works of John Cassian.]
Chapter VI - Of the manner of the temptation in which our Lord was attacked by the devil < [The Works of John Cassian.]
Chapter IX < [Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount.]
Ante-nicene Fathers (by Alexander Roberts)
IV.--An Exposition of Luke XXII. 46, Etc < [Dionysius]
II.--The Gospel According to Luke < [Dionysius]
Chapter VI < [Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.]
Expositions of Holy Scripture (by Alexander Maclaren)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis (by W. Heywood)
Chapter of Temptations < [Teachings and Sayings of Friar Giles]
Chapter VII - Ensample against the temptations of the flesh < [The Life of Friar Juniper]
Chapter XLI - How the venerable Friar Simon delivered from a great temptation a friar . . < [The Little Flowers]
A Dictionary of the Bible (Hastings) (by Andrew Robert Fausset)