{With the wild beasts} (meta t(9375) th(8872)i(936e)). Mark does not
give the narrative of the three temptations in Matthew and Luke
(apparently from the Logia and originally, of course, from Jesus
himself). But Mark adds this little touch about the wild beasts
in the wilderness. It was the haunt at night of the wolf, the
boar, the hyena, the jackal, the leopard. It was lonely and
depressing in its isolation and even dangerous. Swete notes that
in  Ps 90:13  the promise of victory over the wild beasts comes
immediately after that of angelic guardianship cited by Satan in
 Mt 4:6 . The angels did come and minister (di(886b)onoun),
imperfect tense, kept it up till he was cheered and strengthened.
Dr. Tristram observes that some Abyssinian Christians are in the
habit of coming to the Quarantania during Lent and fasting forty
days on the summit amid the ruins of its ancient cells and
chapels where they suppose Jesus was tempted. But we are all
tempted of the devil in the city even worse than in the desert.