Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Had fasted (nhsteusav). No perfunctory ceremonial fast, but of communion with the Father in complete abstention from food as in the case of Moses during forty days and forty nights (Exodus 34:28). "The period of the fast, as in the case of Moses was spent in a spiritual ecstasy, during which the wants of the natural body were suspended" (Alford). "He afterward hungered" and so at the close of the period of forty days.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 4:2:
Luke 4:1
Luke 4:2
Luke 4:2
Acts 1:3
1 Timothy 4:1
1 John 2:16
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