Excerpt from Desert, Pinnacle, and Mountain

I have heard this passage inter preted in such fashion as to spoil it - for me. It is representative of course. The three temptations, de scribed here, epitomize all tempta tions. But this record is not akin to a problem play or a problem novel, arranged by the author so as to point his moral It is record of the moral strain and anguish of a Man who, because he was man, from crown to foot, is representative in his temptations. Jesus said once, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. We might behold that too. But I am not sure that the vision would avail to keep us from falling. I cannot understand how an angel would want to fall.

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