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Luk 22:53. Ὑμῶν, your hour) An hour not given to you before, [although long ago looked and waited for by you.-V. g.]-ἡ ἐξουσία τοῦ σκότους, the power of darkness) Joh 9:4 [“The night cometh, when no man can work”], Luk 14:30 [“The prince of this world”]: of darkness, that is to say, of Satan.[250] The abstract put for the concrete. An allusion to the time in which he spake, viz. the night.
[250] Eph 6:12, “The rulers of the darkness of this world.”-E. and T.