6As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. …
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. …
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, …
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The hour was now come that the captain of our salvation , who was to be made perfect by sufferings , should engage the enemy. We have here his entrance upon the encounter. The day of recompence is in his heart, and the year of his redeemed is come, and his own arm works the salvation , for he has no second. Let us turn aside now, and see this great sight . I. Our Lord Jesus, like a bold champion,…
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