{And showeth him} (kai deiknusin aut(9369)). This wonderful
panorama had to be partially mental and imaginative, since the
devil caused to pass in review "all the kingdoms of the world and
the glory of them." But this fact does not prove that all phases
of the temptations were subjective without any objective presence
of the devil. Both could be true. Here again we have the vivid
historical present (deiknusin). The devil now has Christ upon a
very high mountain whether the traditional Quarantania or not. It
was from Nebo's summit that Moses caught the vision of the land
of Canaan ( De 34:1-3 ). Luke ( Lu 4:5 ) says that the whole
panorama was "in a moment of time" and clearly psychological and
instantaneous.