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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 1:7 - 1:7
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going to and fro - rather, “hurrying rapidly to and fro.” The original idea in Arabic is the heat of haste (Mat 12:43; 1Pe 5:8). Satan seems to have had some peculiar connection with this earth. Perhaps he was formerly its ruler under God. Man succeeded to the vice royalty (Gen 1:26; Psa 8:6). Man then lost it and Satan became prince of this world. The Son of man (Psa 8:4) - the representative man, regains the forfeited inheritance (Rev 11:15). Satan’s replies are characteristically curt and short. When the angels appear before God, Satan is among them, even as there was a Judas among the apostles.