Of course, but the context ("for it is written") was that of the express transcendent revelation of His Truth, and the Lord Himself established His Truth claims upon Scriptural substantiation in word and in power.
“...the Lord Himself established His Truth claims upon Scriptural substantiation in word and in power.”
Not necessarily. An equally valid position (from the bible) says that He established His Truth claims directly from His Father, or to put it another way, His power comes straight from God the Father without the need of a “scripture middleman”.
John 13:3
Matthew 28:18
John 20:21
On topic:
This is an excellent article and thanks for posting:
“It is disconcerting that there is a veritable army of modern exegetes who use reductive modern critical methods of interpretation to conclude that events like the temptation never happned”
These modern exegetes also try to explain away the miracles.
It is actually very very dangerous even more than simply disconcerting.
St. Thomas Aquinas ora pro nobis.
Why do these modern scripture scholars wish to deconstruct the bible and try to “prove” there were no miracles?
The magisterium has always taught since the Apostles themselves that God is the principle author of the bible and because the Trinity is Truth itself (John 14:6) and cannot teach anything untrue, the bible is free from error in everything that it asserts to be true.
CCC 101-14
Modern scripture exegesis is suspect, to put it mildly.
As St. Thomas Aquinas states: Hebrews 4:15 proves the temptation happened beyond doubt.