 | Peter Wittstock - 2004 - 292 pages
...Eleven Disciples During the Last Supper (Cf. 2 Pet. 1:3-11; see also commands 29, 102, and 103) 113 Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all...once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. (Luke 22:31-32) That is to say, consider! that the devil is making deliberate plans to subvert your... | |
 | Hope Blackwell - 2004 - 82 pages
...Jesus' warning to Simon regarding the impending attack Satan waged against the disciples. It reads, "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded-— to sift...once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers," (NRSV) This passage reveals several insights. First, it reveals the boundaries placed on Satan's attacks.... | |
 | Abigail Rian Evans - 2004 - 520 pages
...together in honor of our young men. Elder of the Church: As Jesus said to Peter at the Last Supper, "Listen, Satan has demanded to sift all of you like...prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."(Luke 22:31) As it says in Proverbs 4, two is... | |
 | Jean Lafrance - 2004 - 184 pages
...saw the little seed of good will hidden behind this illusion and that is why he prayed for Peter: / have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail,...once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers (Lk 22:32). Peter had to be able to say: "It is faith and faith alone." Then he would understand the... | |
 | Lamar Williamson - 2004 - 366 pages
...responds to Peter's emphatic declaration of fidelity by predicting Peter's threefold denial7 and says, "But I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back [= are converted, AV], strengthen your brothers" (Luke 22:32). All four Gospels report Peter's pitiful... | |
 | 2004 - 124 pages
...my kingdom; and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. "Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers."... | |
 | Joseph A. Grassi - 2004 - 188 pages
...is not as great as that of Peter succumbing to the temptations of the evil one: Jesus tells Peter, "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but 1 have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen... | |
 | Project Dominic - 2004 - 321 pages
...Peter a special duty in confirming their union and faithfulness by the words: "Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers."382... | |
 | James F. Moore - 2004 - 216 pages
...drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31 "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back,... | |
 | Steve Moyise - 2004 - 166 pages
...to mind Israel's experience of exile, suffering and deportation. Luke alone has the obscure verse, 'Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat' (22.31). The metaphor of sifting is a common one (Amos 9.9) but the locus classicus of Satanic temptation... | |
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Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. 
