Luke 10:18

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
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Clement Of Rome

AD 99
And He pointed out that He saw the evil one like lightning falling down from heaven.

Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637
And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Like lightning. 1. Unexpectedly: because as the lightning bursts forth unexpectedly from a tranquil sky, so were the devils suddenly cast down from heaven. 2. Violently, by the power of Michael and his angels, Revelation 13:7. 3. Swiftly, in a moment of time. 4. Openly, in the presence of all the inhabitants of heaven. Christ took example from the lightning to show how great and swift was the fall of Satan. Euthymius. Many think that Christ here speaks literally of the fall of Satan from heaven, i.e. from the power of which he possessed over the world before the coming of the Saviour. Ye tell me no new thing, 0 my disciples, for when I sent you forth I saw the devil deprived of power, falling as it were from heaven, and about to be yet more discomfited by your ministry. Christ saith this as if to magnify the power which He had given to the disciples. See how mighty a foe is subject to you through My name. So Na...

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
I saw Satan as lightning Many expound it in this manner: I, who am from eternity, saw Satan with all the rebellious angels, as glorious as they were, fall from heaven; fear then, and tremble, though you have received such favours from God. Others take it in this sense, that Christ, by his incarnation, hath seen the power of the devils lessened and confounded, according to what he also said, (John xii. 31.) Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. (Witham) What connexion have these words with what goes before? Some understand them thus: the reign of the devil is near at an end; this prince of darkness is going to be overturned; he will fall from the air, where he reigns, with the same precipitation as lightning, which cuts the clouds and presently disappears. It is almost the same thing he says in other places. "The prince of this world is already judged; behold now is the judgment of this world; behold now the prince of this world shall be cast forth! When I sent you to preach ...

Ignatius of Antioch

AD 108
Darest thou, then, who didst fall "as lightning"

Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202
This Spirit, again, He did confer upon the Church, sending throughout all the world the Comforter from heaven, from whence also the Lord tells us that the devil, like lightning, was cast down.

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
Really "behold Satan as lightning fall from heaven; ". Is manifest, properly belongs to the transgression of the angel, and not to the prince's: for none among human beings was either born in the paradise of God, not even Adam himself, who was rather translated thither; nor placed with a cherub upon God's holy mountain, that is to say, in the heights of heaven, from which the Lord testifies that Satan fell; nor detained amongst the stones of fire, and the flashing rays of burning conStellations, whence Satan was cast down like lightning.

The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375
Who hast cast him down as lightning from heaven to earth,

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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