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What did the devil next do?
Matthew: “The devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world” ([iv, 8]). It must have been “an exceedingly high mountain” to have enabled him to see the kingdoms of the opposite hemisphere.
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What did the devil propose?
“All these things will I give thee [Jesus], if thou wilt fall down and worship me” ([Matthew iv, 9]).
If Jesus was the Christ, and Christ was God, as claimed, who owned “these things,” he or the devil? Think of a tramp offering you a quit-claim deed to your home for a meal.