But Jesus answered, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head, baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents.
Commenting on Luke 4:1-13
And Jesus answering said unto him, it is said,.... In Deu 6:16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God: in the text in Deuteronomy the words are, "ye shall not tempt the Lord your God." The second person plural, is here changed into the second person singular, to accommodate the words to Satan; whom Christ singly addresses, and makes answer to, and who was...
Verse 12. No entry from BARNES for this verse. (g) "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God"