I have always thought that the devil was
coming to Jesus at his
weakest moment: Jesus gaunt, raw -
boned, wild - eyed, ready to scavenge any moldy crust of bread or scrape any meat shreds off a lamb's
bone.
The Artificial Ape by Timothy Taylor (Palgrave Macmillan) We humans, despite our
weak muscles, fragile
bones, and «infantile helplessness,»
came to rule the earth.