Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. Suppose bread fails. Suppose the body literally starves, and the man dies, as we say. Is Christ's theory disproved? By no means. Christ's choice led Him to the cross, and many a follower of His has been forced to choose between the bread-theory and death. When God says that man shall live by His Word, He means by "life," far more than the little span of human years, with their eating, and drinking, and pleasure, and gain-getting. This utterance of the world's Redeemer assumes the fact of immortality. To live by the Word of God is to share the eternal life of God. The bread-life is but the prelude and faint type of this. It gets all its real meaning and value from this. Human life is nothing if it does not foreshadow the larger life of eternity: and when the lower physical life fails for lack of bread, the man does not cease to live: he only begins to live, and to prove that if man cannot live by bread alone, he can live by God alone. (Marvin R. Vincent, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. |
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