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In this addition to the Brazos Theological Commentary series, highly-acclaimed professor of literature David Lyle Jeffrey offers a theological reading of Luke. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve the church—providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups—and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practical viability of a theological...

their authority depends upon Jesus, on the name of him whom they now call Lord. Jesus’s response produces one of the most remarkable of the Lord’s sayings: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (10:18). The utterance is arresting. What does it mean? It seems in the context that we should understand his statement as a clear indication that the effect of the apostolic ministry now established has been a severe blow to the power of the adversary. The advent of the Messiah was expected in late
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