Dict: easton - Temptation

easton:

Temptation @

(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God "tempted kjv@Genesis:22:1; R.V., 'did prove'] Abraham;" and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men kjv@James:1:2 kjv@James:1:12 comp. kjv@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" kjv@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" kjv@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 kjv@Daniel:12:10; kjv@Zechariah:13:9; kjv@Psalms:66:10; kjv@Luke:22:31 kjv@Luke:22:40 kjv@Hebrews:11:17; kjv@James:1:12; kjv@1Peter:1:7 kjv@1Peter:4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph Genesis:39), of David ( kjv@2Samuel:24; 1Chronicles:21), of Hezekiah ( kjv@2Chronicals: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.