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Mat_26:52. Put back thy sword into its place ( θήκην , Joh_18:11; κολεόν , 1Ch_21:27). A pictorial representation; the sword was uplifted.
πάντες γὰρ , κ . τ . λ .] All, who have taken a sword, will perish by the sword,—an ordinary axiom in law (Rev_13:10) adduced for the purpose of enforcing His disapproval of the unwarrantable conduct of Peter, not a προφητεία τῆς διαφθορᾶς τῶν ἐπελθόντων αὐτῷ Ἰουδαίων (Euthymius Zigabenus, comp. Grotius), nor “an ideal sentence of death” (Lange) pronounced upon Peter—all such interpretations being foreign to our passage. Luther, however, fitly observes: “Those take the sword who use it without proper authority.”