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Mat_4:7. Πάλιν ] rursus, never signifies in the N. T., not even in 2Co_10:7, Gal_5:3, 1Jn_2:8, at quoque, e diverso, a meaning which it frequently has in classic writers (Ellendt, Lex. Soph. II. p. 485), as Erasmus, Er. Schmid, Schleusner, B. Crusius, have interpreted it; but here means, on the other hand, looking back to the γέγραπται of the devil in Mat_4:6, and introducing another passage of Scripture as something which again has been written; comp. Mat_5:33. Bengel well says: Scriptura per scripturam interpretanda et concilianda.
οὐκ ἐκπειράσεις ] future, as in Mat_1:21; the compound strengthens the meaning; comp. on 1Co_10:9.
The meaning is: “Do not let it be a question whether God will save thee from dangers on which thou hast entered uncalled.”
Flacius: Si habuisset expressum mandatum dei, non fuisset tentatio. Deu_6:16 (LXX.), comp. Exo_17:2.