Speaking to Peter, or Satan?

From: Questions and Answers on Scripture: From the Bible Treasury

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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Question: Matt. 16:22, 23.—Did Christ really call Peter Satan? or did He speak to Peter, but answer Satan? Yours, &c.,

Answer: It is plain, I think, that the Lord so called Peter; not saying, “Get thee hence,” as He did to the enemy personally (Matt. 4:10), but “Get thee behind me.” This last in Luke 4:8 is an interpolation equally opposed to external and to internal evidence; for there the clause is necessarily omitted, and has been clearly the mere work of scribes, designedly or not. It is most instructive to observe how the Lord treats the flesh in a saint assuming in kindness to claim superior grace over the Spirit. We may and ought to treat it as Satan’s work, as the Lord did in Peter.