Matthew Chapter 12 verse 26 Holy Bible
and if Satan casteth out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?
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And if Satan sends out Satan, he makes war against himself; how then will he keep his kingdom?
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And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom subsist?
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And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
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If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
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and if the Adversary doth cast out the Adversary, against himself he was divided, how then doth his kingdom stand?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then. The transposition in the Revised Version to how then shall brings out more distinctly the fact that then is not temporal, but argumentative (οϋν.). His kingdom stand? To De Wette's objection that Satan might perhaps do such a thing once so as to gain in other ways, Meyer answers that our Lord is referring to the practice of casting out devils, which, as such, is certainly directed against Satan.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) If Satan cast out Satan.--In the Greek the name has the article in both places, as pointing to the one great adversary. It is not that one Satan casts out another, but that he, on the assumption of the Pharisees, casts out himself. Satan is not personally identified with the demon, the deaf or dumb spirit, that had possessed the man, but the language implies that where evil enters into the soul, Satan enters also. (Comp. John 13:27.) There is, as it were, a seeming ubiquity, a solidarite, in the power of evil, as there is admittedly in the sovereign power of good.