Many of the struggles we are soon to face “come to pass.” Temptation is the act of tempting or the state of being tempted. In the OT the specific verb indicating the act of tempting is the Piel form nissa. In Gen. 22:1 nissa characterizes God’s command to Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering in the land of Moriah. The term nissa is rarely, if ever, applied in the OT to Satan’s act of enticing men to sin. An understanding is established between the writer and the reader; we know more than Abraham could have known.
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