Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 4:3

3 And when the Tempter came unto him he said, If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made Bread.

And when the Tempter. [Satan, the Devil as he is called viz.] came unto him, Probably in some visible shape. He forming an audible Voice of the Air said, If thou be the Son of God, not that he doubted it, which shewed his horrible Impudence. Command that these stones, this stone saith Luk. ch. 4.3. be made Bread. The Temptation plainly was to the use of means which God did not allow him, to relieve him in his Distress of Hunger, to distrust the Providence of God, in supporting of him. A Temptation common to those who are the Members of Christ, and enough to instruct us, that we ought to look upon all Thoughts, and Motions, to the use of means not allowed by God, in order to a Lawful end, as are Temptations vel a Carne, vel Hoste, either from our own Flesh, for Iames 1.14. every man is Tempted, when he is drawn away by his own Lust, and enticed; or from our Grand Adversary the Devil. It is not much material for us to know from which, they being both what we ought to resist, tho those from Satan are usually more violent, and impetuous.