Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians But after His [lengthened] fast thou didst again assume thy wonted audacity, and didst tempt Him when hungry, as if He had been an ordinary man, not knowing who He was. For thou saidst, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread."[42] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And the devil looking at Him, and tempting Him, said: "If Thou art the Son of God; "[66] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For, when tempting Him, he said, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread."[183] Tertullian Against Praxeas serpent has fallen out with himself, since, when he tempted Christ after John's baptism, he approached Him as "the Son of God; "surely intimating that God had a Son, even on the testimony of the very Scriptures, out of which he was at the moment forging his temptation: "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread."[3] ."[369] Tertullian On Fasting having (the power) to make "loaves out of stones,"[60] Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments As John says these things to the multitude, and as the people watch in eager expectation of seeing some strange spectacle with their bodily eyes, and the devil[391] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes For forthwith Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil; and as the devil had no correct knowledge of Him, he said to Him, "If thou be the Son of God."[632]