Why did the devil omit "to guard you in all your ways"?

[tonychanyt]

Psalm 91:

9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge— 10 no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.

The psalmist used hyperbole.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.

These were not absolute guarantees. The psalmist encouraged people to trust God using poetic exaggerations.

Satan tempted Jesus in Mat 4:

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 6and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,’
and
“‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

The devil deliberately omitted the infinitive phrase. Why?

The omission was a distraction. With or without the phrase, the passage was about trusting God. Jesus was not distracted. He did not argue with the devil about the omission. As usual, Satan tried to provoke people to sin: Test this: If you throw yourself down and the angels do not catch you, then you are not the Son of God.

7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Jesus was not distracted and was focused.

Why did the devil omit "to guard you in all your ways"?

He tried to distract Jesus' thinking with the omission. It didn't work. Jesus knew the difference between trusting God and testing Him.

 

[friend of]

When you say the devil omitted that verse, are you saying that that verse is not found in certain translations?

 

[BobRyan]

The devil deliberately omitted the infinitive phrase. Why?

Because "to guard you in all your ways" points directly at Satan's device -- his error was to try and get Christ to act in the way of Satan - not in the way of the Messiah - Son of God.

Why did the devil omit "to guard you in all your ways"?

Because he did not want to remind Christ of the very point of error he was introducing which is that his suggestions were NOT the ways of God.

Satan's IQ/mind/Intellect is far above any human. Nothing he says or does "is for nothing"

 

[tonychanyt]

When you say the devil omitted that verse, are you saying that that verse is not found in certain translations?

No.

 

[tonychanyt]

Because "to guard you in all your ways" points directly at Satan's device

What is his device?

 

[BobRyan]

What is his device?

He is tempting Jesus NOT to act in accordance to "His ways" but rather in accordance to "satan's ways".

So to remind Him that the text says "to keep you in all your ways" - is to remind Christ of the very device of deception Satan wishes to employ.

 

[65James]

Reading Luke 4:10-11 satan does say in 10b to keep thee. So maybe because Matthew‘s Gospel is more about Jesus the King, so as the True King Jesus has no need to be kept.
But Luke’s Gospel is about Jesus the Man. All saints need great help to keep ourselves. So Luke states in so many words as men and women we also can have this help, but Matthew is like our Great Kings needs not be help or kept.