14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles—that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles , 2 Cor. 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so . He might have spoken very positively. The apostleship, as an office, was equal in all the apostles; but the apostles, like other Christians,…
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