5And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. …
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam , bespeak him to be the seed of the woman ; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent’s head , baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents. Thus, in the beginning of the war, he made reprisals upon him, and conquered the conq…
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