11Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
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Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; …
And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the woman suffers, being tempted , and so has his heel bruised; but the serpent is quite baffled in his temptations, and so has his head broken; and our Lord Jesus comes off a Conqueror, and so secures not on…
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