<OL TYPE="1"><LI>an experiment, attempt, trial, proving<OL TYPE="a"><LI>trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Gal. 4:</OL><LI><OL TYPE="b"><LI>the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy<OL TYPE="1"><LI>an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances<LI>an internal temptation to sin 1b</OL><LI>of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand<OL TYPE="3"><LI>of the condition of things, or a mental state, by which we are enticed to sin, or to a lapse from the faith and holiness<LI>adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness</OL><LI>temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men<OL TYPE="1"><LI>rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves</OL></OL></OL>