Post-baptism temptation type; Word himself high priest and lamb

He lives and conducts himself blamelessly. So he was turning into the desert—that is, making his sojourns—not bodily; for without drink and the food necessary to bodies, as in the Spirit’s power above our nature, he was enduring toward the fast. But mark this—for the force of the thought is most useful: he was not tempted before the holy baptism, nor was he led by the Spirit into the desert then, setting the matter as a type for us. For it is impossible for those not yet baptized either to bear manfully Satan’s hard assault or to be led spiritually; the fitting time for such bright and admirable achievements is after the holy baptism. For thus strengthened by sharing in the Holy Spirit and sealed with the grace from above unto spiritual vigor, we shall be unconsumed by Satan and shall live as in the Spirit’s power.

“Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold the confession; for we do not have a high priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one tempted in all things according to likeness, without sin.” And since there is confessedly one Son of God and Father—clearly Christ Jesus—who can sympathize with our weaknesses and has been tempted in all things according to likeness without sin, who then would our great high priest be? Is it not the Word who became as we are and suffered in flesh for us? For then he was styled our high priest—not as bringing forward a foreign and strange alien victim, as is customary with others, but being himself the lamb, the most fragrant sacrifice. For even if the Word of God had not yet become human, he already knew human weakness as Creator; but he had not yet been called into the very experience of our weaknesses. But since he was clothing himself with our flesh, he has been tempted in all things—not, we say, as having been ignorant, but because, with God-befitting knowledge already underlying, it also happened that he learned it through experience.