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THE SECOND
TEMPTATION
Luke 4:5-8; Matthew 4:5-7
Christ stands on the roof ridge of a church which has a bell tower on
the right, a dwarf gallery under the eaves and a great door held by C-shape
hinges. The devil behind taunts Christ to jump off the roof. The gestures
of the devil on the right, pointing up and down, emphasise the text ‘He
shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they
shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone’
(Matthew 4:6). Christ, with his pointing finger, replies ‘Thou shalt
not tempt the Lord thy God’.
In Odbert’s Psalter (Boulogne, Bibliothèque Municipale MS
20), based on Anglo-Saxon models, Christ also stands over a gabled entrance
and a devil beckons from below (AP, 86 pl.107).
Quire 3. Thread or stitch holes for protective curtain
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