Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 10:18
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
18. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven ] Rather, I was observing Satan as lightning fallen from heaven, Isa 14:9-15. We find similar thoughts in Joh 16:11; Joh 12:31, “now shall the prince of this world be cast out;” 1Jn 3:8; Heb 2:14.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
I beheld Satan … – Satan here denotes evidently the prince of the devils who had been cast out by the seventy disciples, for the discourse was respecting their power over evil spirits. Lightning is an image of rapidity or quickness. I saw Satan fall quickly or rapidly – as quick as lightning. The phrase from heaven is to be referred to the lightning, and does not mean that he saw Satan fall from heaven, but that he fell as quick as lightning from heaven or from the clouds. The whole expression then may mean, I saw at your command devils immediately depart, as quick as the flash of lightning. I gave you this power – I saw it put forth – and I give also now, in addition to this, the power to tread on serpents, etc.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 18. I beheld Satan] Or, Satan himself, , the very Satan, the supreme adversary, falling as lightning, with the utmost suddenness, as a flash of lightning falls from the clouds, and at the same time in the most observable manner. The fall was both very sudden and very apparent. Thus should the fall of the corrupt Jewish state be, and thus was the fall of idolatry in the Gentile world.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Lightning comes suddenly, and with thunder. The thunder of the gospel brought down the devil as lightning: and indeed this is observable, the devil is so busy in no places where the gospel prevails, as in places where that joyful sound is not come, whether we consider his power with reference to mens bodies or souls. This is one general advantage of gospel preaching, the devil will not endure the sound of it, so as to impose upon mankind, at that rate which he doth upon ignorant persons, that are heathens, or only differing from them in that they are baptized, and call themselves Christians. Christ saw this, as God, for the devil is not visible to human senses, as neither are any spirits; which showed the impudence of that popish impostor in Germany, who selling indulgences, (by which he pretended souls were delivered from purgatory), called to the people to look up and see them fly away. But Christ could see it as God, for he certainly knew that it would be, and that it already was, the blessed effect of the gospel.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
18. I beheldAs much of theforce of this glorious statement depends on the nice shade of senseindicated by the imperfect tense in the original, it should bebrought out in the translation: “I was beholding Satan aslightning falling from heaven”; that is, “I followed you onyour mission, and watched its triumphs; while you were wondering atthe subjection to you of devils in My name, a grander spectacle wasopening to My view; sudden as the darting of lightning fromheaven to earth, lo! Satan was beheld falling from heaven!” Howremarkable is this, that by that law of association which connects apart with the whole, those feeble triumphs of the Seventy seem tohave not only brought vividly before the Redeemer the whole ultimateresult of His mission, but compressed it into a moment and quickenedit into the rapidity of lightning! Note.The word rendered”devils,” is always used for those spiritual agentsemployed in demoniacal possessionsnever for the ordinaryagency of Satan in rational men. When therefore the Seventy say, “thedevils [demons] are subject to us,” and Jesus replies,”Mine eye was beholding Satan falling,” it is plainthat He meant to raise their minds not only from the particularto the general, but from a very temporary form ofsatanic operation to the entire kingdom of evil. (See Joh12:31; and compare Isa 14:12).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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, he was present, and saw him and his angels fall from heaven, from their first estate, their habitation of bliss and glory, down to hell, upon their sin and rebellion, as violently, swiftly, and suddenly, as the lightning falls from heaven to earth; and when he sent out these his disciples, as soon as they began their work, and all along in it, he, by his divine omniscience, saw the powers of darkness falling before their ministry and miracles; and he also foresaw how Satan hereafter, in a more conspicuous manner, would fall before the preaching of his Gospel by his apostles, not only in Judea, but especially among the Gentiles, where he, the prince of this world, would be cast down from his throne, and out of his kingdom; so that what they related, as it was what he knew before, it was but little in comparison of what he himself had seen long ago, and of what he foresaw would be; and even he would give them power to do other miraculous works besides these.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
I beheld Satan fallen ( ). Imperfect active (I was beholding) and second aorist (constative) active participle of (not
fallen , , perfect active participle, nor
falling , , present active participle, but
fall , ). 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.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
I beheld [] . The verb denotes calm, intent, continuous contemplation of an object which remains before the spectator. So Joh 1:14, we beheld, implying that Jesus ‘ stay upon earth, though brief, was such that his followers could calmly and leisurely contemplate his glory. Compare Joh 2:23 : they beheld his miracles, “thoughtfully and attentively. Here it denotes the rapt contemplation of a vision. The imperfect, was beholding, refers either to the time when the seventy were sent forth, or to the time of the triumphs which they are here relating.” While you were expelling the subordinates, I was beholding the Master fall ” (Godet). The Revisers do not seem to have had any settled principle in their rendering of this word throughout the New Testament. See my article on the Revised New Testament, Presbyterian Review, October, 1881, p. 646 sq.
Satan. A transcription of the Hebrew word, derived from a verb to lie in wait or oppose. Hence an adversary. In this sense, of David, 1Sa 29:4, and of the angel who met Balaam, Num 22:22. Compare Zec 3:1, 2; Job 1, 2. Diabolov, devil, is the more common term in the New Testament. In Rev 12:9, both terms are applied to him. As lightning. Describing vividly a dazzling brilliance suddenly quenched. Fall [] . Lit., having fallen. The aorist marks the instantaneous fall, like lightning.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
1) “And he said unto them,” (elpen de autois) “Then he replied to them,” to the rejoicing seventy who had returned with joy, much as Psa 126:5-6.
2) “I beheld Satan,” (etheoroun tou satanan) “I observed Satan,” the overseer of all deranged spirits, fallen angels, all demons, when he fell and drew them after him, evidently referring to him as Lucifer, Isa 14:12-17; Rev 12:7-10.
3) “As lightning fall from heaven,” (hos astrapen ek tou ouranou pesonta) “Fall like lightning out of heaven,” or fall like a streak of lightning out of and away from the third heaven, as a burnt-out star, that should shine no more, Jud 1:6; Joh 12:31; Eph 2:2; Eph 6:12; 1Jn 3:8; Heb 2:14; Rev 12:7-9; Rev 20:10.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
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. (52) So then, while the disciples rested solely on that demonstration which they had obtained from experience, Christ reminds them, that the power and efficacy of their doctrine extends farther, and that its tendency is to extirpate the tyranny which Satan exercises over the whole human race. We have now ascertained the meaning of the words. When Christ commanded that his Gospel should be preached, he did not at all attempt a matter of doubtful result, but foresaw the approaching ruin of Satan. (53) Now since the Son of God cannot be deceived, and this exercise of his foresight relates to the whole course of the Gospel, we have no reason to doubt, that whenever he raises up faithful teachers, he will crown their labor with prosperous success.
Hence we infer, that our deliverance from the bondage of Satan is effected in no other way than through the Gospel; and that those only make actual proficiency in the Gospel, in whom Satan loses his power, so that sin is destroyed, and they begin to live to the righteousness of God. We ought also to attend to the comparison which he employs, that the thunder of the Gospel makes Satan fall like lightning; for it expresses the divine and astonishing power of the doctrine, which throws down, in a manner so sudden and violent, the prince of the world armed with such abundant forces. It expresses also the wretched condition of men, on whose heads fall the darts of Satan, who rules in the air, and holds the world in subjection under his feet, till Christ appear as a Deliverer.
(52) “ A ceste fin de renverser et destruire;” — “for the very purpose of overthrowing and destroying.”
(53) “ Christ n’a point entreprins, ou essaye une chose a l’aventure, et de laquelle l’issue fust incertaine: mais a veu que la ruine de Satan s’en en-suyvroit;” — “Christ did not undertake or attempt a thing at random, and the result of which was uncertain; but saw that the ruin of Satan would follow from it.”
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(18) I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.The tense of the first Greek verb implies continuous action: I was beholding Satan as he fell . . . While they were working their Master had been following them in spirit, gazing, as it were, on each stage of their victorious conflict. Their triumph over the demons was the beginning and the earnest of a final conquest over Satan as the prince of the demons. There may, possibly, be a reference to the belief then beginning to be current among the Jews as to the fall of Satan after his creation; but the primary meaning of our Lords words is that he was now dethroned from his usurped dominion in the high places (comp. Eph. 6:12), which symbolised the spiritual region of the soul and mind of man. The imagery reappears in a developed form in Rev. 12:9.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
18. I beheld Satan Beheld here is in the Greek imperfect, I was beholding; and grammatically it describes the action as going on while another action is being performed. While you were subduing demons, I was beholding and contemplating Satan himself falling like lightning from heaven. As the yielding demons, so the falling Satan, was a visible revelation; each symbolizing the glorious future. But how could it be a literal reality which Jesus saw? We pretend not to know. If, however, we understand it aright, there was vouchsafed from the eternal Father, to the human thought of Jesus a view of the actual event of Satan’s primeval fall, seen in the past; with a true beholding like the divine seeing of a real event in the future. To the human perception of the man Jesus, that is, was presented the full view of that great event in the past eternity, known and remembered in the mind of the eternal Father, the first downfall of Lucifer from his heavenly state. That great reality he beheld, not so much in vision as in a perfect and divine perception, directed into the eternal past. This great reality was unveiled to him from God the Father (as intimated in Luk 10:21) as the symbol of Satan’s future overthrow in the great contest of Heaven and Hell on earth. It was perception rather than conception. As it was a reality, then, which the Seventy saw, so it was a reality which Jesus saw. And both realities were the type and prophecy of a divine future. We know not, however, upon what authority it is that some divines (as Stier) decide that Jesus could never receive revelation by vision. We see no proof that he who as a child grew in wisdom, who as a youth suffered temptation, who as a man was to suffer grievous eclipse of spirit on the cross, might not have had his moments of human cheer derived from divine revelation exhibited to his human vision.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘And He said to them, “I beheld (or ‘I was beholding’) Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.” ’
Jesus replied that it was what they should expect, for He their Master had seen (or ‘was beholding’) Satan fall from Heaven ‘like lightning’. He was a defeated foe. ‘Like lightning’ may refer to the speed at which it happened, it happened in a flash, or to a vivid and symbolic picture of an angel of light (compare 2Co 11:14) falling into darkness. Lightning more suggests the latter. But the idea is metaphorical, not literal (Satan is never seen, he is a spiritual being).
‘From heaven.’ That is from the heavenly sphere. We are not necessarily to see this literally as a fall from a height, but as a movement from heavenliness to non-heavenliness. he ceased to enjoy the benefits of being ‘heavenly’. As man through sin ‘died’, so Satan through sin lost his heavenliness. He lost his authority, he lost his privileges, he lost his position, he lost the presence of God, he lost what he essentially had been. It was this loss that made spirits seek to possess the bodies of men and women.
It has been suggested that this might refer to:
1) The original fall of Satan, when, in pre-creation times, he fell from His position as an angel attendant on God through pride, which was what has resulted in His opposition to God ever since, an opposition expressed in Genesis 3; Job 1-2; Zec 3:1-5.
2) Jesus being continually aware of what His disciples were successfully doing and seeing in it symbolically the swift fall and defeat of Satan. As the Kingly Rule of God advances Satan now ‘falls from heaven’. He has no place in the Kingly Rule of God and is thrust outside and must flee before it. This would tie in with Luk 10:19 which depicts the changed status of the disciples.
3) A foreview in vision or spiritual insight, as a result of what was happening now, of the final victory He would gain over him at the cross (Rev 12:7-9).
If we take the first Jesus is here saying that they need not fear Satan’s power because in the face of Jesus authority as the One Who cast Satan out of Heaven Satan is a defeated foe, a fact to which Jesus Himself can bear witness. This idea naturally arises out of the conversation. As the disciples rejoice in what they have seen of defeated evil spirits Jesus wants them to know that He saw, and was responsible for, an even greater defeat of evil when Satan himself was cast from Heaven. Let them therefore recognise that for them the most important thing is that their names are written in Heaven. Even though He has given them amazing powers and abilities nothing is more important than that.
If we take the second it is Jesus rejoicing with them over the defeat of Satan as He has witnessed it in their activities, in the same way as he has also already been defeated in Jesus’ own activities since His coming. He is on the run.
But essentially the New Testament sees the defeat of Satan as finally accomplished at the cross (Col 2:15; Rev 12:7-9). And the reason that they are able to defeat him now, even before the cross, is because they are ambassadors of the One Whose authority is above that of Satan because of Who He is. Thus when they act in His name the forces of darkness will be defeated, for He is the One Whom all evil spirits must obey because He is Lord of all. Something on which the cross will put the final seal.
(So the idea is that Satan is to be seen as already defeated, whatever his part in world history. We are not therefore intended to see him as able to fight God. God is over all, and Satan, whether he likes it or not, must do His will. And his end is certain. But it is a reminder that when he fell God did not destroy him, any more than he destroyed man when he fell. He has allowed him to operate within the created sphere, although held on a tight rein).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Ver. 18. Fall from heaven ] That is, from men’s hearts, which he accounts his heaven; but is cast out by the mighty gospel.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
18. ] This verse has been generally misunderstood, and its force lost, by imagining it to refer to some triumph just gained , which our Lord announces as the reason for their newly manifested power. The truth is, that in this brief speech He sums up proleptically , as so often in the discourses in John, the whole great conflict with and defeat of the Power of evil, from the first even till accomplished by His own victory. The . . . refers to the original fall of Satan, when he lost his place as an angel of light, not keeping his first estate; which fall however had been proceeding ever since step by step, and shall do so, till all things be put under the feet of Jesus who was made lower than the angels. And this belongs to the period before the foundation of the world when He abode in the bosom of the Father. He is to be (see Luk 10:22 ) the Great Victor over the Adversary, and this victory began when Satan fell from heaven. (I would not altogether erase the foregoing interpretation: but surely it is grammatically more correct, with Bleek, to refer the imperfect to the time just past, to the Lord’s prophetic sight at the time of the ministering of the Seventy. Cf. Act 18:5 for a similar imperfect. If this view be correct, the words do not refer to any “ triumph just gained ,” but to the Lord’s glorious anticipations of final triumph, felt during the exercise of power by His servants.)
. ] Not the suddenness only of the fall, but the brightness of the fallen Angel is thus set forth. The description is not figurative, but literal; i.e. as far as divine words can be said to be literal, being accommodated to our sensuous conceptions. See on this verse, Isa 14:9-15 , to which the words have a reference; and Rev 12:7-12 .
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Luk 10:18 . : their report was no news to Jesus. While they were working He saw Satan falling. There has been much discussion as to what is meant by this fall, and why it is referred to. It has been identified with the fall of the angels at the beginning of the world, with the Incarnation, with the temptation of Jesus, in both of which Satan sustained defeat. The Fathers adopted the first of these alternatives, and found the motive of the reference in a desire to warn the disciples. The devil fell through pride; take care you fall not from the same cause (Luk 10:20 ). , like lightning; the precise point of the comparison has been variously conceived: momentary brightness, quick, sudden movement, inevitableness of the descent down it must come to the earth, etc. , aorist after the imperfect ( ), fallen , a fact accomplished. Pricaeus refers to Act 19:20 as a historical exemplification of the fall Satan’s kingdom destroyed by the rapid spread of Christianity.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
I beheld. Greek. theoreo. App-133.
Satan. Hebrew transliterated = the Adversary. 1Sa 29:4. Diabolos is the more frequent term in the N.T. Both are in Rev 12:9.
fall = having fallen.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
18.] This verse has been generally misunderstood, and its force lost, by imagining it to refer to some triumph just gained, which our Lord announces as the reason for their newly manifested power. The truth is, that in this brief speech He sums up proleptically, as so often in the discourses in John, the whole great conflict with and defeat of the Power of evil, from the first even till accomplished by His own victory. The . . . refers to the original fall of Satan, when he lost his place as an angel of light, not keeping his first estate; which fall however had been proceeding ever since step by step, and shall do so, till all things be put under the feet of Jesus who was made lower than the angels. And this belongs to the period before the foundation of the world when He abode in the bosom of the Father. He is to be (see Luk 10:22) the Great Victor over the Adversary, and this victory began when Satan fell from heaven. (I would not altogether erase the foregoing interpretation: but surely it is grammatically more correct, with Bleek, to refer the imperfect to the time just past,-to the Lords prophetic sight at the time of the ministering of the Seventy. Cf. Act 18:5 for a similar imperfect. If this view be correct, the words do not refer to any triumph just gained, but to the Lords glorious anticipations of final triumph, felt during the exercise of power by His servants.)
.] Not the suddenness only of the fall, but the brightness of the fallen Angel is thus set forth. The description is not figurative, but literal; i.e. as far as divine words can be said to be literal, being accommodated to our sensuous conceptions. See on this verse, Isa 14:9-15, to which the words have a reference; and Rev 12:7-12.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Luk 10:18. , I was beholding) viz. in spirit: at the time when ye went forth, or when ye acted.[94]- , as lightning) with the utmost rapidity.- , from heaven) in which Satan seems to have been accusing the little ones, i.e. the disciples.-) falling headlong (or rushing): and this, either, he had been banished by force out of heaven (certainly Satan at that time received many strokes, even through the instrumentality of those little ones; in which view the , I was beholding, signifies, that the disciples themselves in some measure had acted against Satan, the Lord beholding them all the time, and rejoicing that He is conquering Satan through them as His instruments): or else, because he (Satan) had obtained permission to resist the disciples, by whom Satan was to be overcome; and he had hastened to come to the succour of the demons which obey him, and to support (prop up) his bad cause. Comp. Luk 10:19. At all events , with which comp. Act 27:26, LXX. , , 1Ch 14:9; 1Ch 14:13, is not always the same as ; Rev 12:9.[95] Action in heaven includes action on earth, not vice versa.[96] The image, as lightning, is in consonance: and it is not until afterwards that Satan is said to be about to be cast out: Joh 12:31.
[94] When ye were actually preaching and performing the miracles which I enabled you to perform.-ED. and TRANSL.
[95] Where refers to the forcible ejection of the dragon, which was to be long subsequent.-ED. and TRANSL.
[96] Therefore it does not follow that because demons were cast out on earth, therefore Satan was cast out from heaven.-ED. and TRANSL.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
I beheld Satan: Joh 12:31, Joh 16:11, Heb 2:14, 1Jo 3:8, Rev 9:1, Rev 12:7-9, Rev 20:2
Reciprocal: Exo 8:18 – they could Num 23:23 – no enchantment 1Sa 5:3 – Dagon was Isa 14:12 – How art thou fallen Lam 2:1 – and cast Amo 9:2 – climb Joh 4:48 – Except Col 2:15 – having 1Ti 3:6 – the condemnation 2Pe 2:4 – the angels Rev 8:10 – a great Rev 12:9 – the great
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A TRUE SENSE OF PROPORTION
And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luk 10:18
Let us seek honestly to imitate our Master, and look upon our world as He looked upon this earth, when as from a position in eternity He saw Satan fall from heaven.
I. If we look upon our own lives as one looks back upon a way already trodden, and a work already accomplished, we shall gain a truer sense of the proportion of things. This true sense of proportion in life is hard for us to keep in the nearness of present things; yet it is essential to large, happy living that we should gain and keep it. Whenever we shall be far enough out in eternity to look back and see our lives as one whole, we shall understand better Gods grouping of events in them.
II. In so far as we can put ourselves in the exercise of our own faiths beyond this life, we shall gain in many respects a different, and in all a more just, estimate of our own real attainments. We shall see more clearly what we may expect to win for ourselves from life.
III. Only as we strive to throw ourselves forward into the life beyond, and to consider our whole existence here as it is in its relation to the man and his life then and there, can we form a safe estimate of the worth of things.
Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary
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I beheld Satan as lightning fall from, heaven. Moffatt renders this, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.” John refers to this event in Rev 12:9. The thought is that Jesus would have more to boast of than the disciples, since he saw the chief of devils fall from heaven. But he was not making any such use of it as a personal advantage.
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Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
[I beheld Satan, etc.] “Lucifer falling from heaven,” Isa 14:12; is the king of Babylon divested of his throne and dominion. So is Satan in this place. The word I beheld; I would refer to this very time: “When I sent you forth I saw Satan’s fall at hand, that he should be immediately despoiled of his power and tyranny.” For when the Messiah had determined to exhibit himself, and, in order thereunto, to send out so numerous a multitude of persons that should publish his appearance, it was absolutely necessary, and it could not otherwise be, but that the power of Satan should sink, and his government be shaken.
It is probable these seventy disciples were sent out upon the approach of the feast of Tabernacles, and when there now remained about half a year to the death of Christ. In which interval of time Christ shewed himself more openly, both by the preaching of these persons, and also in his own personal exhibition of himself, than before he had done. All which things determining in his death, whose death was also the death of Satan, might give him a very just occasion of saying, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven; thrown out of his throne and kingdom. Compare Rev 12:8; where ‘heaven’ is to be interpreted ‘the church.’
Fuente: Lightfoot Commentary Gospels
Luk 10:18. I was beholding, i.e., while you were thus exercising power over demons. Of course the vision was a spiritual one.
Satan, the personal prince of darkness.
Fall as lightning, i.e., suddenly.
From heaven. This seems to be figurative, implying the pride and height of Satans power. The thought is, I saw your triumph over Satans servants, and in this a token of his fall, of complete victory to be finally achieved through such works of faith and courage in my name. If the verse did not stand in this connection we might perhaps refer it to some remote point of time, such as the victory over Satan in the wilderness, or the original fall of Satan. The tense used in the Greek does not, however, indicate any such point of time, but a period. Every explanation must accept much that is figurative and poetic in the verse, but the one we adopt is open to the fewest difficulties. The objection that the success of the Seventy was an insufficient ground for such declaration depreciates their success. They had surpassed, through their courage and faith, the promised power. He, to whom the secrets of the world of spirits lie open, saw in this more than a temporary success; it was to Him the token of final triumph. The human agents in bringing in that triumph, have a conflict which is not with flesh and blood (Eph 6:12).
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning {f} fall from heaven.
(f) Paul writes that the location of the devil and his angels is in the air, as is found in Eph 6:12 , and he is said to be cast down from there by force, when his power is abolished by the voice of the Gospel.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
Jesus described the humiliation of Satan’s demons as though it was a repetition of Satan’s actual fall from heaven that happened before Creation. Isaiah’s description of the king of Babylon’s fall was similar (Isa 14:12). Many Bible students believe that Isaiah was describing the fall of Satan, but the context argues for a human king. Jesus may have been alluding to this passage. However, He appears to have been describing a current fall or humiliation symbolized by the subjection of the demons to His authority. This is more probable than that He described a vision that He had. Satan will experience similar humiliations in the future during the Tribulation (Rev 12:7-10; Rev 12:13), at the end of the Tribulation (Rev 20:2), and at the end of the Millennium (Rev 20:10). Jesus’ victory over Satan gave Him, as well as His disciples, cause for rejoicing.
"To the casual observer all that had happened was that a few mendicant preachers had spoken in a few small towns and healed a few sick folk. But in the gospel triumph Satan had suffered a notable defeat." [Note: Morris, p. 185.]