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Mat 12:25. Ἐνθυμήσεις, thoughts) most bitter ones; cf. Mat 12:34-35.--βασιλεία, kingdom) First the kingdom of Satan is treated of, then his house, and, in ver 26, Satan himself; whose kingdom contains wicked men, whose house, devils.-οὐ σταθήσεται, shall not be established, shall not be made to stand) sc. by its master or lord. Ammonius[570] says: σταθῆναι μέν ἐστι τὸ ὑφʼ ἑτέρου· στῆναι δὲ, τὸ κατʼ ἰδίαν ῥώμην, καὶ προαίρεσιν, i.e. σταθῆναι is to stand by means of another, but ΣΤῆΝΑΙ is to stand by its own strength and will.
[570] Not the author of the Ammonian Sections, but AMMONIUS, the son of Hermias, a Peripatetic philosopher, disciple of Proclus, who flourished in the sixth century. His work, De differentia dictionum, is to be found in a Greek dictionary, published in folio at Venice in 1497; and it is also printed in a collection of ancient Grammarians which appeared in quarto at Leyden in 1739.-(I. B.)