Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,.... Which may be literally understood, as in Mar 16:18, or figuratively of the devil, and his principalities and powers, and all his…
Barnes' Notes
To tread on serpents - Preservation from danger. If you tread on a poisonous reptile that would otherwise injure you, I will keep you from danger. If you go among bitter and malignant enemies that…
Adam Clarke
To tread on serpents, etc. - It is possible that by serpents and scorpions our Lord means the scribes and Pharisees, whom he calls serpents and a brood of vipers, Mat 23:33, (see the note there),…
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 give Read, I have given, with א, B, C, L, &c.
power Rather, the authority.
to tread on serpents and scorpions Compare Mar 16:17-18. So far as the promise was literal,the only fact of the kind…
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