Note 32 — Chapter II · BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS.
George Eliot translation
From the orthodox point of view, it cannot be consistently said, with Hoffmann (p. 301), that for the conviction of his messiahship and the maintenance of the right position, amid so many temptations and adverse circumstances, an internally wrought certainty did not suffice Jesus, and external confirmation by a fact was requisite. ↑