7<\/strong>. wilt worship me<\/em> ] Rather, wilt do homage before me<\/strong>. Comp. Psa 22:27<\/span>.<\/p>\n all shall be thine<\/em> ] Rather, it<\/strong> (the habitable world) shall all be thine<\/strong>, for the true reading is psa<\/em> (all the uncials) not panta<\/em>. There was then living, one to whom in as high an ambitious sense as has ever been realised, it did<\/em> all belong the Emperor Tiberius. But so far from enjoying it he was at this very time the most miserable and most degraded of men (Tac. Ann<\/em>. vi. 6, iv. 61, 62, 67; Plin. H. N.<\/em> xxviii. 5).<\/p>\n Verse 7<\/span>. If thou – wilt worship me<\/B><\/I>] This temptation is the last<\/I> in order, as related by Matthew; and it is not reasonable to suppose that any other succeeded to it. Luke has here told the particulars, but not in the order in which they took place. See every circumstance of this temptation considered and explained in the notes on Mt 4:1-11<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n If thou therefore wilt worship me<\/strong>,…. Or “before me”; that is, fall down before him, and give him divine worship and homage. A wide difference there is between a good angel and a fallen angel; a good angel will not suffer himself to be worshipped by men, but directs to the worship of God only, Re 19:10<\/span> but a fallen angel not only seeks to be worshipped by men, but by the Son of God himself, even by him whom all the holy angels worship, Heb 1:6<\/span> This was what Satan at first aspired after, and by which he fell: he affected deity, and sought to have divine worship given him; and in this sin he still persisted, and grew worse and worse, more daring and insolent, desiring worship of him who is God over all, blessed for ever.<\/p>\n All shall be thine<\/strong>: he promises to give him a title to all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, on condition of homage done him, by which he should hold the tenure of them under him; these being delivered up solely to him, by the author of them; and he having them in his power, to dispose of them at pleasure. O horrid impudence, arrogance, and insolence!<\/p>\n Wilt worship before me <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). Mt 4:9<\/span> has it more bluntly “worship me.” That is what it really comes to, though in Luke the matter is more delicately put. It is a condition of the third class (<\/SPAN><\/span> and the subjunctive). Luke has it “thou therefore if” ( <\/SPAN><\/span>), in a very emphatic and subtle way. It is the ingressive aorist (<\/SPAN><\/span>), just bow the knee once up here in my presence. The temptation was for Jesus to admit Satan’s authority by this act of prostration (fall down and worship), a recognition of authority rather than of personal merit.<\/P> It shall all be thine <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). Satan offers to turn over all the keys of world power to Jesus. It was a tremendous grand-stand play, but Jesus saw at once that in that case he would be the agent of Satan in the rule of the world by bargain and graft instead of the Son of God by nature and world ruler by conquest over Satan. The heart of Satan’s program is here laid bare. Jesus here rejected the Jewish idea of the Messiah as an earthly ruler merely. “He rejects Satan as an ally, and thereby has him as an implacable enemy” (Plummer.) <\/P> <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “If thou therefore wilt worship me,” <\/strong>(su oun ean proskuneses enopoin emou) “if therefore you will worship (bow) to, toward, or before me,” bow down like a dog at his master’s feet, worship me: 1) out of fear, 2) for this bribe; But to worship him would be to become his subject and to break Divine Law, Exo 20:5<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “All shall be thine.” <\/strong>(estai sou pasa) “All these will come to be, to exist as yours,” put under your exclusive power, administrative authority, or control. It was not Satan’s to give in the first place, for “the earth is the Lord’s (not the Devil’s) and the fulness thereof,” Psa 24:1<\/span>. It belonged to Jesus by creation, Joh 1:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n 7<\/strong>. <\/strong> If<\/em> In the three temptations there are three ifs, <\/em> given obviously by Matthew in the true order. The first if <\/em> questions whether he is the Son of God, and suggests a selfish test. The second if <\/em> rather concedes the sonship, and bases upon it a selfish vain-glory. The third if <\/em> concedes his fitness for a universal monarchy, and proposes a compact by which Jesus shall be the king, and Satan the god, of the earth.<\/p>\n 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 7. If thou wilt worship<\/strong> ] Papa dulia adorandus, <\/em> say the Canonists. <\/p>\n Luk 4:7<\/span> . , emphatic; Satan hopes that Jesus has been dazzled by the splendid prospect and promise: Thou all Thine ( ).<\/p>\n If thou therefore, &c App-118. The condition hypothetical. <\/p>\n worship me = worship before me. See App-137. See note on “before”, Luk 1:6. <\/p>\n worship me: or, fall down before me, Luk 8:28, Luk 17:16, Psa 72:11, Isa 45:14, Isa 46:6, Mat 2:11, Rev 4:10, Rev 5:8, Rev 22:8 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Dan 3:15 – ye fall Rev 22:9 – worship God<\/p>\n TEMPTED THROUGH THE WORLD<\/p>\n If Thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be Thine.<\/p>\n Luk 4:7<\/p>\n I. The spirit of the world.When our Lord was offered the kingdoms of the world in return for an act of homage, in His mind the proposal would assume the aspect of an expedient for advancing His Kingdom, with the policies and prudences and compromises of this world. Yet we can hardly contemplate a ceremonial and bodily prostration as being the first and last of what was proposed. By falling down and worshipping the spirit of the world, I understand lowering the ideal of Christs intended kingdom, and enlisting in its favour, and employing as agents in its extension and maintenance, the passions, the methods, and the ambitions which might without harshness or exaggeration be included in the word worldly-mindedness.<\/p>\n II. Our Lord does not hesitate in His answer.He replies, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Thou shalt make Him no more co-ordinate than subordinate with any other object of worship. The Gospel of grace must contract no contamination from an alliance with sin, or by a coalition with anything that deserves the name of worldliness.<\/p>\n Illustration<\/p>\n Satan has no more ready, potent, or successful instrument of assault upon the personal religion and Christian usefulness of the believer than the world. Failing, in the case of our Lord, to secure homage and worship by the presentation of worldly blandishments, he plies his arts with His followers, wounding the Lord in the person of His disciples. The world, that had no attraction for Christsave only its redemptionalas! constitutes one of the most seductive temptations of the Christian. Satan is constantly presenting it in endless forms of attraction, wearing as many disguises and backed by every species of argument. There is not a ruse he does not employ by which to bring the world to bear upon the Christian. The eye delighting in beauty, the ear ravished with sounds, the taste delicate and daintyThe lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye and the pride of lifeare so many media through which the attractive power and ascendancy of the world attain an easy conquest in the mind of the Christian.<\/p>\n 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be {c} thine.<\/p>\n (c) Out of a high place, from which would be seen a good and first-class country, and thus the devil showed him all countries.<\/p>\n If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. 7. wilt worship me ] Rather, wilt do homage before me. Comp. Psa 22:27. all shall be thine ] Rather, it (the habitable world) shall all be thine, for the true reading is psa (all the uncials) not panta. 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