Are the differences due to:

1) Satan deliberately editing Scripture?
2) Matthew and Luke recording the events using different sources?
3) Satan is quoting the Septuagint?
4) Problems with the TR?
5) Something else?

Given the way Satan deliberately edited God's Word when speaking to Eve, I assume it is number 1, but I want to be sure.

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With what language would Satan have spoken? Hebrew? Greek? Aramaic?

great Qs!!!

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jessi
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BTW, I understand that Satan misapplies Scripture here, but does he also misquote Scripture?

Between Matthew and Luke it's just a question of how much detail they report. So Matthew truncates Satan's words, while Satan doesn't quite Psalm 91:11 in its entirety. I know a lot of commentators have made a big deal over the omission of "in all thy ways" but I am not sure it is correct to do so. For one thing, the variation between Matthew and Luke suggests that we may not have all of Satan's exact words in any case. For another thing, I have never been able to see how eliding "in all thy ways" is going to make the temptation that much more subtle and hard to see through.

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What about the fact that both Luke and Matthew agree that Satan added the words, "at any time"?

At a glance, it looks like someone's having a conversation with themselves- your avatars are identical, and screen names close, too.

Silly bat people.

Theognome

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Kansas City
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Matthew Henry:

John Gill:

I have read some commentaries that claim Satan deliberately misquoted Scripture and some do not mention Satan misquoting Scripture, but I have not read any that specifically refute the idea.

I'll leave this to those who are wiser than I.

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Julio, Amaya
Clifton, NewJersey
Reformed Baptist Church of North Bergen

From Foote:

That is consistent with the LXX rendering.

Most incidental differences in synoptics is put down to the fact that the Evangelists reported the "ipsissima vox" rather than the "ipsissima verba" of the speaker, that is, his own sense rather than his own words. Hence Matthew and Luke agree in giving the sense of what the Tempter spoke. As to the omission of the same phrase where there is no verbal or oral "source" requiring it, this would seem to indicate that Satan did in fact omit an important qualification to the promise he quoted.

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By 'source' do you mean the LXX?

Yes, it seems another of the many examples where the LXX was quoted rather than the Hebrew.

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Tim Vaughan
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Santa Maria
California

Did Matt and Luke quote the LXX, or did Satan?

The "source" could have been oral or written considering it concerns a Messianic reference.