ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S δε 1161 CONJ αυτοις 846 P-DPM εθεωρουν 2334 5707 V-IAI-1P τον 3588 T-ASM σαταναν 4567 N-ASM ως 5613 ADV αστραπην 796 N-ASF εκ 1537 PREP του 3588 T-GSM ουρανου 3772 N-GSM πεσοντα 4098 5631 V-2AAP-ASM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
18. I beheld (eqewroun). The verb denotes calm, intent, continuous contemplation of an object which remains before the spectator. So John i. 14, we beheld, implying that Jesus' stay upon earth, though brief, was such that his followers could calmly and leisurely contemplate his glory. Compare John ii. 23: they beheld his miracles," thoughtfully and attentively. Here it denotes the rapt contemplation of a vision. The imperfect, was beholding, refers either to the time when the seventy were sent forth, or to the time of the triumphs which they are here relating. "While you were expelling the subordinates, I was beholding the Master fall" (Godet). The Revisers do not seem to have had any settled principle in their rendering of this word throughout the New Testament. See my article on the Revised New Testament, Presbyterian Review, October, 1881, p. 646 sq.Satan. A transcription of the Hebrew word, derived from a verb to lie in wait or oppose. Hence an adversary. In this sense, of David, 1 Samuel xxix. 4, and of the angel who met Balaam, Num. xxii. 22. Compare Zech. iii. 1, 2; Job 1, 2. Diabolov, devil, is the more common term in the New Testament. In Apoc. xii. 9, both terms are applied to him. As lightning. Describing vividly a dazzling brilliance suddenly quenched. Fall (pesonta). Lit., having fallen. The aorist marks the instantaneous fall, like lightning.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
10:18 {I beheld Satan fallen} (eqewroun ton satanan pesonta). Imperfect active (I was beholding) and second aorist (constative) active participle of piptw (not {fallen}, peptwkota, perfect active participle, nor {falling}, piptonta, present active participle, but {fall}, pesonta). As a flash of lightning out of heaven, quick and startling, so the victory of the Seventy over the demons, the agents of Satan, forecast his downfall and Jesus in vision pictured it as a flash of lightning.
