Luke 10:18 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 10:18

So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

BSB

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ASV

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.

KJV

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

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Commentary

5 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 64 (444)

According to Christ's declaration, the harvest indeed was great, but the laborers were few. In addition to those first chosen, he appointed seventy others and sent them to every village and city of Judea before his face to be his forerunners and to preach the things that belonged to him.The authority that they carried to rebuke evil spirits and the power of crushing Satan was not given to them that they might be regarded with admiration. It was given to them so that Christ would be glorified by their means.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

...the dew, which is the Spirit of God, who descended upon the Lord, should be diffused throughout all the earth, "the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and piety, the spirit of the fear of God." This Spirit, again, He did confer upon the Church, sending throughout all the world the Comforter from heaven, from whence also the Lord tells us that the devil, like lightning, was cast down.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I beheld Satan - Or, Satan himself, τον Σαταναν, the very Satan, the supreme adversary, falling as lightning, with the utmost suddenness, as a flash of lightning falls from the clouds, and at the same time in the most observable manner. The fall was both very sudden and very apparent. Thus should the fall of the corrupt Jewish state be, and thus was the fall of idolatry in the Gentile world.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

We learn, from this passage — how ready Christians are to be puffed up with success. It is written, that the seventy returned from their first mission with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject unto us through your name." There was much false fire in that joy. There was evidently self-satisfaction in that report of achievements. The whole tenor of the passage leads us to this conclusion. The remarkable expression which our Lord uses about Satan's fall from Heaven, was most probably meant to be a caution.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἶπεν	eipen	He said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them;	G846 →
ἐθεώρουν	etheōroun	I was beholding	G2334 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
σατανᾶν	satanan	Satan	G4567 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
ἀστραπὴν	astrapēn	lightning	G796 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
οὐρανοῦ	ouranou	heaven	G3772 →
πεσόντα.	pesonta	having fallen.	G4098 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
leads to
- Ezekiel 28:13–17
  You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in…
- Revelation 12:7–10
  Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Through
John 12:31
Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
leads to
- 1 John 3:8
  The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 14:30
  I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
  The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- 1 John 5:19
  We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Through
Revelation 9:1
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
leads to
- Revelation 8:10
  Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
John 16:11
and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.
leads to
- John 12:31
  Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke