26And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
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Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, …
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-37)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s glorious conquest of Satan, in the gracious cure of one who, by the divine permission, was under his power, and in his possession, Matt. 12:22. Here observe, 1. The man’s case was very sad; he was possessed with a devil . More cases of this kind occurred in Christ’s time than usual, that Christ’s power might be the more magnified, and his purpose the more manif…
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