10. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan--Since the tempter
has now thrown off the mask, and stands forth in his true character, our
Lord no longer deals with him as a pretended friend and pious
counsellor, but calls him by his right name--His knowledge of which from
the outset He had carefully concealed till now--and orders him off. This
is the final and conclusive evidence, as we think, that Matthew's must
be the right order of the temptations. For who can well conceive of the
tempter's returning to the assault after this, in the pious character
again, and hoping still to dislodge the consciousness of His Sonship,
while our Lord must in that case be supposed to quote Scripture to one
He had called the devil to his face--thus throwing His pearls before
worse than swine?
for it is written--
(De 6:13).
Thus does our Lord part with Satan on the rock of Scripture.
Thou shalt worship--In the Hebrew and the Septuagint it is,
"Thou shalt fear"; but as the sense is the same, so "worship" is
here used to show emphatically that what the tempter claimed was
precisely what God had forbidden.
the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve--The word "serve" in
the second clause, is one never used by the Septuagint of any but
religious service; and in this sense exclusively is it used in the
New Testament, as we find it here. Once more the word "only," in the
second clause--not expressed in the Hebrew and the Septuagint--is
here added to bring out emphatically the negative and prohibitory
feature of the command. (See
Ga 3:10
for a similar supplement of the word "all" in a quotation from
De 27:26).
JFB.
Outline
1 The temptation of Jesus
13 Jesus dwells in Capernaum
17 Jesus begins to preach
18 Jesus calls Peter and Andrew, James and John
23 Jesus heals the sick
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