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Mat 4:10. Ὕπαγε, depart) “Get thee behind Me, Satan” said the Lord to Peter, when he took Him and endeavoured to dissuade Him from undergoing His passion; thus commanding Peter to retire into the proper place of a disciple, i.e., behind Him. But to Satan He said, Depart, Satan: go, not behind Me, but plainly from Me.-Σατανᾶ, Satan) q.d. “Thou hast tried to discover who I am, and I tell thee who thou art.” He calls the tempter, when he wished to appear specially gracious to Him, Satan.[143]-Κύριον-προσκυνήσεις, κ.τ.λ., Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve) In Deu 6:13, the LXX. have Κύριον-φοβηθήσῃ, κ.τ.λ., Thou shalt fear the Lord, etc. Jesus substitutes worship aptly for fear.-Cf. Mat 4:9.-μόνῳ, only, alone) Thus the LXX. have it, who have inserted μόνος also in Gen 3:11; Gen 3:17, without doing violence to the meaning.
[143] For he had plainly showed, by his pride, that he was Satan.-Vers. Germ.