Now show if thou art indeed the Son of God. Cast thyself down, for
it is written that He will command his angels concerning thee, so that
they in their hands shall uplift thee."
"It is also written," said Jesus, "'Tempt not the Lord thy God.'" And as
he so spoke and stood, Satan, overcome with amazement, fell whence he had
expected to see his conqueror fall, and, struck with dread and anguish at
his certain defeat, fled to his rebel angels.
Straightway, a "fiery globe" of angels received the Son on their pinions,
bore him from the pinnacle into a flowery vale, and there refreshed him
with ambrosial food and water from the Fount of Life, while all around him
the angelic choir sang his praises for the conquest of his enemy, and
encouraged him to go forth on his work of saving mankind. Thence, rested
and refreshed, he arose, and went, unobserved, home to his mother's house.
SELECTION FROM PARADISE REGAINED.
THE TEMPTATION OF THE VISION OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH.
Satan, meeting the Savior in the wilderness, tempted him to change the
stones to bread, and then, after endeavoring to awake in him a longing for
wealth and power, appealed to his ambition by leading him to a mountain
top, and displaying to him the kingdoms of the earth.
With that (such power was given him then), he [Satan] took
The Son of God up to a mountain high.
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