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Mat 4:6. Γέγραπται, it is written) A most specious temptation, which appears to quote Scripture appositely. There is no doubt but that Satan must have often felt the force of this saying, from the protection which the angels extended to the godly against him.-ὅτι-περὶ σοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ, κ.τ.λ.) He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. The LXX. render Psalms 91(90):11, 12,-ὅτι-περὶ σοῦ, τοῦ διαφυλάξαί σε ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς σου ἐπὶ, κ.τ.λ., He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy way: they shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. The fraud of Satan consists rather in false application, than in omission.-ἐπὶ χειρῶν, in their hands) That is, they shall guard Thee with great circumspection.-λίθον, a stone) i.e., one of those of which the Temple was built. The tempter applies the psalm speciously.