Verse 8
8. Forty days and forty nights He was miraculously sustained. On the same mountain Moses had twice fasted this same length of time, (Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28,) and in another wilderness Jesus did the same.
Matthew 4:2. “Elijah stands,” says Wordsworth, “at a middle point between Moses and Christ. He looks back to the law and forward to the Gospel. He restores the one and prepares the way for the other. He hears an echo of the terrors of the law in the wind, the earthquake, and the fire; he hears the far-off whispers of love in the Gospel in the still small voice.”
Horeb the mount of God See on Exodus 3:1. It is remarkable that after the giving of the law there is no account of any Jew visiting this holy mount except Elijah.
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