Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Then the devil taketh him up—rather, "conducteth Him."
into the holy city—so called (as in Isaiah 48:2; Nehemiah 11:1) from its being "the city of the Great King," the seat of the temple, the metropolis of all Jewish worship.
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple—rather, "the pinnacle"—a certain well-known projection. Whether this refers to the highest summit of the temple, which bristled with golden spikes [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 5.5,6]; or whether it refers to another peak, on Herod's royal portico, overhanging the ravine of Kedron, at the valley of Hinnom—an immense tower built on the very edge of this precipice, from the top of which dizzy height JOSEPHUS says one could not look to the bottom [Antiquities, 15.11,5]—is not certain; but the latter is probably meant.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 4:5:
Daniel 9:27
Matthew 4:1
2 Thessalonians 2:4
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