John Trapp on Luke 4:3-4

Verse 3. Command this stone] Bread of deceit is sweet to aProv. 20. 17. man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravell. Compare this verse with verse 9. and see how the devill usually tempteth by extreams, to make men offend either in defect, or excesse. Thus he tempted Master Knox upon his death-bed, if not to despair, [illegible: 1 word]. then to presume that heaven should be his, for his zeal in the Scottish Reformation.