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Confrontation
Our Saviour showed perfect confidence that His heavenly Father
would not suffer Him to be tempted above what He should give Him
strength to endure, but would bring Him off conqueror if He patiently
bore the test to which He was subjected. Christ had not of His own will
placed Himself in danger. God had suffered Satan for the time being
to have this power over His Son. Jesus knew that if He preserved His
integrity in this extremely trying position an angel of God would be
sent to relieve Him if there was no other way. He had taken humanity
and was the representative of the race.