Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 10:13

13 There hath no temptation taken you, but what is common to man : but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it .

Temptation (as hath been said before) signifieth in the general notion of it no more than Tryals, and is often so used in holy Writ. Now in regard we are tryed either by afflictive Providences, or by motions made to us, either from God, or our own lusts, or the Devil, or men of the World. Temptations in Scripture sometimes signifie Afflictions, as Iam. 1.2. 1 Pet. 2.6. Sometimes motions made to us by God, Gen. 22.2. both which sorts of Temptations are good in themselves. Sometimes the term signifies Motions made by the lusts and unrenewed part of our own Souls, or by the Devil, or by sinful men in the World; these are sinful Temptations, and what we most ordinarily call by that name. Whether the Apostle here means all or some of these, cannot certainly be determined; what he saith is true of all, and therefore that is the safest interpretation of the term in this place, though he had not been before speaking indeed of afflictive Temptations. He had before affrighted them with minding them of the possibility of their falling, though they did stand, or thought they stood, and cautioned them to take heed: Here he comforteth them, by minding them,

that no temptation had befallen them, but what was incident and common to men, [non-Latin text not transcribed], and they could not expect to be freed from the common Fate of Mankind:

then he minds them, that that God who had promised strength and assistance to his people, Matt. 7.11. Luke 11.13. 2 Cor. 1.18. 1 Thess. 5.4. 2 Thess. 3.3. was one that would be as good as his word, being faithful, and would not suffer them to be tempted above their strength, and ability to oppose and resist;

yea, and would make a way to escape, both the evil of the temptation, that it should not over-bear them to a total ruine of their Souls, and likewise the burdensom and afflictive evil, that it should not continually lie upon them, provided they used their just endeavours, and (as he had said before) took heed lest they fell.

Marginal references: Or, moderate.; Chap. 1.9.; Psal. 125.3. 2 Pet. 2.9.; Jer. 29.11.