The holy city — So Jerusalem was commonly called, being the place God had peculiarly chosen for himself. On the battlement of the temple — Probably over the king's gallery, which was of such a prodigious height, that no one could look down from the top of it without making himself giddy.
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Matthew 4:5
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,