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Mat_4:10. Ὕπαγε ] The spurious words ὀπίσω μου would have to be explained: go behind me—that is, go back that I may see thee no longer! ἀφανίσθητι , Euth. Zigabenus. ὀπίσω with the genitive belongs to the LXX. and the Apocrypha, after the Hebrew, àÇçÂøÅé ô× ; in this way the Greeks construe ὄπισθεν .
σατανᾶ ] to infer from this that Jesus now for the first time (too late) recognises Satan (de Wette), is arbitrary, and opposed to the representation of the matter in Mat_4:1, according to which Jesus cannot have been unaware of the intention of the Holy Spirit, who impelled Him to go into the wilderness. That He now calls Satan by name, is in keeping with the growing intensity of the emotion in general, as well as with the personal address of the tempter in Mat_4:9. “Tentatorem, quuni is maxime favere videri vult, Satanam appellat,” Bengel.
κύριον , κ . τ . λ .] Jehovah alone shalt thou worship, do homage to Him only as thy master. Deu_6:13, according to the LXX., freely applied to the proposal of Satan.” According to this arrangement, it is by the way of obedience to God that Jesus is aware that He will attain to the government of the world. Joh_18:36; Php_2:6 ff.; Mat_28:18; Act_10:36 ff.