tnre. — olx exwupdaeis, x.r.X.) thou shall not tempt, etc. — Thus the LXX. in Deut. vi. 16. According to the usage of those interpre ters, txKupdfyiv is not a word of stronger signification than fsipd- fyiv. — Jesus, however, means, " It is not Mine to provoke God by tempting Him." — Kvpiov, the Lord) This is put as a proper name.
8. TLdXiv, again) This was the third and last conflict, as is evi dent from the expression " Depart" ver. 10. — opog, a mountain) A new theatre of temptation. — dsixvuffiv, shows) To His eyes those things which the horizon enclosed : the rest, perhaps, by enume ration and indication. Satan is a subtle spirit.
9. Awtfw, / will give) But the Son is the heir of all things, and whatever authority Satan possessed on account of man's defec tion from God, that, Christ, stronger than he,1 took from him, not by compact, but by conquest. What the devil could not persuade Christ to do in his temptation, that he will effect by his vassal the Beast, see Rev. xiii. 2. And what he offered to Christ, he will give to that adversary of His, viz., the kingdoms of the world. — lav, x.r.X., if, etc.) Vast pride, to offer all the king doms of the earth as a gift, in return for one act of adoration acknowledging that gift.2 Without doubt, he appeared in an august form.
10. "Y-raye, depart) "Get thee behind Me, Satan" said the Lord to Peter, when he took Him and endeavoured to dissuade Him from undergoing His passion ; thus commanding Peter to retire into the proper place of a disciple, i.e., behind Him. But to Satan He said, Depart, Satan : go, not behind Me, but plainly from Me. — 2arai/a, Satan) q.d. " Thou hast tried to discover who I am, and I tell thee who thou art." He calls the tempter, when he wished to appear specially gracious to Him, Satan.3 — Kvpiov — Vfwtxw^fftifj z.r.X., Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve) In Deut. vi. 13, the LXX. have Kvpiov — pofSydqa?!, X.T-.X., Thou shalt fear the Lord, etc. Jesus substitutes worship aptly for fear. — Cf. ver. 9. — povy, only, alone]
1 Luke xi. 21, 22.— (I. B.)
* " What the angel did not permit John to do, that the tempter demands of Jesus, the Lord of all (Rev. xxii. 8, 9)." — Vers. Germ.
3 For he had plainly showed, by his pride, that he was Satan. — Vera. Germ.