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- Luke
- Chapter 10
- Verse 18
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Gill's Exposition
And he said unto them,.... In order to abate their surprise, and reduce their transport of mind:
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven; meaning, that this was no news to him, nor any…
Barnes' Notes
I beheld Satan ... - “Satan” here denotes evidently the prince of the devils who had been cast out by the seventy disciples, for the discourse was respecting their power over evil spirits. “Lightning”…
Adam Clarke
I beheld Satan - Or, Satan himself, τον Σαταναν, the very Satan, the supreme adversary, falling as lightning, with the utmost suddenness, as a flash of lightning falls from the clouds, and at the same…
Christ sent forth the seventy disciples as he was going up to Jerusalem to the feast of tabernacles, when he went up, not openly, but as it were in secret (Joh 7:10), having sent abroad so great a…
Cambridge Bible
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven Rather, I was observing Satan as lightning fallen from heaven, Isa 14:9-15. We find similar thoughts in Joh 16:11; Joh 12:31, "now shall the prince of this…
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