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Selected Verse: Luke 10:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 10:17 |
King James |
And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
returned--evidently not long away.
Lord, &c.--"Thou hast exceeded Thy promise, for 'even the devils,'" &c. The possession of such power, not being expressly in their commission, as in that to the Twelve (Luk 9:1), filled them with more astonishment and joy than all else.
through thy name--taking no credit to themselves, but feeling lifted into a region of unimagined superiority to the powers of evil simply through their connection with Christ. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The devils are subject unto us - The devils obey us. We have been able to cast them out.
Through thy name - When commanded in thy name to come out of those who are possessed. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
The seventy
"The fuller development of the new dispensation begins with the mission of the seventy, and not with the mission of the apostles. Its ground-work, from Luke's point of sight, is the symbolic evangelization of every nation upon earth, and not the restoration of the twelve tribes of Israel. According to Jewish tradition, there were seventy or seventy-two different nations and tongues in the world. In Luk 10:1, some read seventy-two instead of seventy" (Westcott, "Int. to the Study of the Gospels"). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The seventy returned again with joy - Bishop Pearce thinks they returned while our Lord was on his slow journey to Jerusalem, and that they had been absent only a few days. |
1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.