True enough. I meant that there’s no external tempter in the garden of Gethsemane. I’d already remarked that the temptation of Jesus (as found in Matthew 4) “seems very different in kind from that of Eve” and was proposing a better parallel.
Fair enough. The way I see it, there are some themes that are paralleled in Gethsemene, and some themes that are paralleled in the forty days and nights in the desert. They’re both parallels, but in different ways.
There’s one in Matthew 4 verse 1 to 11, in which Jesus spends forty days in the desert, fasting, and then is visited (and tempted) by the Devil.
True enough. I meant that there’s no external tempter in the garden of Gethsemane. I’d already remarked that the temptation of Jesus (as found in Matthew 4) “seems very different in kind from that of Eve” and was proposing a better parallel.
Fair enough. The way I see it, there are some themes that are paralleled in Gethsemene, and some themes that are paralleled in the forty days and nights in the desert. They’re both parallels, but in different ways.