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Mat 4:9. Δώσω, I will give) But the Son is the heir of all things, and whatever authority Satan possessed on account of man’s defection from God, that, Christ, stronger than he,[141] took from him, not by compact, but by conquest. What the devil could not persuade Christ to do in his temptation, that he will effect by his vassal the Beast, see Rev 13:2. And what he offered to Christ, he will give to that adversary of His, viz., the kingdoms of the world.-ἐὰν, κ.τ.λ., if, etc.) Vast pride, to offer all the kingdoms of the earth as a gift, in return for one act of adoration acknowledging that gift.[142] Without doubt, he appeared in an august form.
[141] Luk 11:21-22.-(I. B.)
[142] “What the angel did not permit John to do, that the tempter demands of Jesus, the Lord of all (Rev 22:8-9).”-Vers. Germ.