Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 10:18 - 10:18

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 10:18 - 10:18


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18. ἐθεώρουν τὸν σατανᾶν ὡς ἀστραπὴν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πεσόντα. ‘I was observing Satan as lightning fallen from heaven,’ Isa 14:9-15. We find similar thoughts in Joh 16:11; Joh 12:31, “Now shall the prince of this world be cast out;” 1Jn 3:8; Heb 2:14. πεσόντα, not cadentem but lapsum. The metaphor is a picturesque one, and the mixture of the imperfect (ἐθεώρουν) with the aorist (πεσόντα) seems to imply the two thoughts that Christ watched—followed with His gaze—Satan’s fall from the zenith, and saw him lying where he had fallen. The fall implies the conception of Satan as “prince of the power of the air” (τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις). Comp. Rev 12:9; Eph 2:2; Eph 6:12.