“Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be got by hard, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.”

—  J.C. Ryle

Matthew IV: 1–11, p. 26
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Matthew (1856)

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