So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
18. I beheld Satan From one instance Christ leads them to the whole class; for he commanded his Gospel to be published for the very purpose of overturning Satan’s kingdom. “A ceste fin de renverser et destruire;” — “for the very purpose of overthrowing and destroying.” So then, while the disciples rested solely on that demonstration which they had obtained from experience, Christ reminds them...
Christ sent forth the seventy disciples as he was going up to Jerusalem to the feast of tabernacles, when he went up, not openly, but as it were in secret (Joh 7:10), having sent abroad so great a part of his ordinary retinue; and Dr.
Commenting on Luke 10:17-24
And he said unto them,.... In order to abate their surprise, and reduce their transport of mind: I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven; meaning, that this was no news to him, nor any surprising event, that devils should be cast out of men, and be in a state of subjection; for as he existed as the eternal Son of God before his incarnation...