Matthew (4:1) to have been “led up by the Spirit into the wilderness”; and the same is recited (Luke 4:1) in these words, “Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, was led in the Spirit into the wilderness”; whereby it is evident that by “Spirit” there is meant the Holy Ghost. This cannot be interpreted for a possession; for Christ and the Holy Ghost are but one and the same substance; which is no possession of one substance or body by another. And whereas in the verses following He is said “to have been taken up by the devil into the holy city, and set upon a pinnacle of the temple,” shall we conclude thence that He was possessed of the devil, or carried thither by violence? And again, “carried thence by the devil into an exceeding high mountain, who showed Him thence all the kingdoms of the world”: wherein we are not to believe He was either possessed, or forced by the devil; nor that any mountain is high enough, according to the literal sense, to show Him one whole hemisphere. What then can be the meaning of this place, other than that He went of himself into the wilderness; and that this carrying of Him up and down from the wilderness to the city, and from thence into a mountain, was a vision? Conformable whereunto is also the phrase of St.