The Guise of Satan.
"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." Matthew 4:1
Satan must have come in some attractive disguise. Satan could not have come as Satan, as Apollyon to Bun- yan's Pilgrim, with horrible form and sulphurous and flaming breath; for then there would have been no temptation. He does not tempt us in that way, and Jesus was tempted " like as we are."
He may have come as an angel of light, or perhaps as some traveler; or he suggested the temptations to his mind, as "the wicked ones whispcringly suggested many blasphemies to Christian in theValley of the Shadow of Death.