‘Get thee behind me, Satan’ (Luke 4.8)Jesus’ response to the devil when being tempted with all the kingdoms of the earth is a rejection of the self-centred lure of power and of worshipping that which is undeserving (i.e. all that is not God).
Having gained a life of its own, the phrase has both grown and been diminished. Today, it is a dieting slogan, the message on mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers, even a thong (see, e.g., http://shop.cafepress.co.uk/get-thee-behind-me). Who knows what the King James’ translators, or the Jesus whom they depict, would make of this? ‘Get thee behind me,’ perhaps?
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