“Jesus dealt with three temptations– to gluttony, vainglory and avarice. All three recapitulated the one temptation of Adam. ” Gregory the Great

“It is not through miracles but by patient, long-suffering endurance that must prevail over the devil. We should do nothing merely for show.” Theodore of Mopsuestia

“That by which Adam was tempted, food, did not succeed in tempting Christ.” Maximus of Turin

“The clause ‘if you are the Son of God’ is in Greek a first class condition and does not suggest that the devil doubts Jesus’ sonship; rather he wants to find out what kind of son Jesus will be. In each instance the devil tempts Jesus to bypass the suffering that God has marked out for him and to use his power in a triumphalistic, self-glorifying fashion.” GK Beale commentary on the NT use of the OT.