If Thou Be the Son of God

If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ….Matt. 4:6 If thou be the Son of God! Was it with a grin of sarcasm playing on his face, that the Tempter challenged the divine Sonship of this pale Man, Whom from the bleak desert he had trans­ported to the pinnacle of the temple? In the wilderness had he found Him, hungry and in want, destitute and apparently forsaken of God and man. And with the same taunting challenge he had appealed to the almighty power of that divine Sonship, tempting Him...