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Luke:10:17 @{
Returned with joy } (\
hupestrepsan meta charas \).
They had profited by the directions of Jesus .
Joy overflows their faces and their words . {
Even the demons } (\
kai ta daimonia \).
This was a real test .
The Twelve had been expressly endowed with this power when they were sent out (
Luke:9:1 |),
but the Seventy were only told to heal the sick (
10:9 |).
It was better than they expected .
The Gospel worked wonders and they were happy .
The demons were merely one sign of the conflict between Christ and Satan .
Every preacher has to grapple with demons in his work . {
Are subject } (\
hupotassetai \).
Present passive indicative (
repetition ).
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Luke:10:18 @{
I beheld Satan fallen } (\
ethe
roun ton Satan
n pesonta \).
Imperfect active (
I was beholding )
and second aorist (
constative )
active participle of \
pipt \ (
not {
fallen }, \
pept
kota \,
perfect active participle ,
nor {
falling }, \
piptonta \,
present active participle ,
but {
fall }, \
pesonta \).
As a flash of lightning out of heaven ,
quick and startling ,
so the victory of the Seventy over the demons ,
the agents of Satan ,
forecast his downfall and Jesus in vision pictured it as a flash of lightning .
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Luke:10:19 @{
And over all the power of the enemy } (\
kai epi p
san t
n dunamin tou echthrou \).
This is the heart of "
the authority " (\
t
n exousian \)
here given by Jesus which is far beyond their expectations .
The victory over demons was one phase of it .
The power to tread upon serpents is repeated in strkjv @
Mark:16:18 | (
the Appendix )
and exemplified in Paul '
s case in Malta (
Acts:28:3-5 |).
But protection from physical harm is not the main point in this struggle with Satan "
the enemy " (
Matthew:13:25 ;
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Romans:16:20 ;
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1Peter:5:8 |). {
Nothing shall in any wise hurt you } (\
ouden hum
s ou m
adik
sei \).
Text has future active indicative ,
while some MSS .
read \
adik
s
i \,
aorist active subjunctive of \
adike \,
common verb from \
adikos \ (\
a \
privative and \
dikos \),
to suffer wrong ,
to do wrong .
The triple negative here is very strong .
Certainly Jesus does not mean this promise to create presumption or foolhardiness for he repelled the enemy '
s suggestion on the pinnacle of the temple .