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Luk 4:2. Ἡμέρας τεσσαράκοντα, forty days) This is commonly construed with πειραζόμενος, being tempted. But it was not until the time when Jesus hungered, after the forty days were completed, that the Tempter came to Him; Mat 4:3. It ought therefore to be construed with ἤγετο, was led into the wilderness, and was in the wilderness forty days. A similarly abbreviated mode of expression [See Append, on Concisa Locutio] in ch. Luk 20:9, He went away, to be absent for a long time [ἄπεδήμησεν χρόνους ἱκανούς]; so Rev 20:2. He bound him a thousand years, i.e. that he should be [remain] bound a thousand years. [Comp. Jos 8:29, Joshua laid great stones in the cave’s mouth-until this day, i.e. which remain until this day; Luk 10:27 in the Hebr.-V. g.]-συντελεσθεισῶν αὐτῶν, when they were consummated [ended]. There was a definite limit to them fixed.