Matthew 16:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ στραφεὶς, εἶπεν τῷ Πέτρῳ, Ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, Σατανᾶ: σκάνδαλόν μου εἶ: ὅτι οὐ φρονεῖς τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

Transliteration

He de strapheis, eipen to the Petrō, Hypage behind me, Satana: skandalon of me ei: for not you phroneis the things of the Theou, but the things of the anthrōpōn.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *strapheis*: aorist passive participle, nominative singular masculine - having turned
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he said
• *Petrō*: dative singular masculine - to Peter
• *Hypage*: present active imperative, 2nd person singular - go away
• *Satana*: vocative singular masculine - Satan/Adversary
• *skandalon*: nominative singular neuter - stumbling block/offense
• *ei*: present active indicative, 2nd person singular - you are
• *phroneis*: present active indicative, 2nd person singular - you mind/think
• *Theou*: genitive singular masculine - of God
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive plural masculine - of men/humans

Word Meanings

• *strapheis*: having turned/turned around
• *Hypage*: go away/depart/get behind
• *Satana*: Satan/Adversary/Enemy
• *skandalon*: stumbling block/offense/hindrance
• *phroneis*: you mind/think about/set your mind on

Referenced Verses

• Matt 4:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus to him, `Go -- Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'
• Mark 8:33 : 33 and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, `Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'
• Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.
• Col 3:2 : 2 the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,
• Rom 8:5-8 : 5 For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; 6 for the mind of the flesh `is' death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, 8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
• 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned; 15 and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
• John 6:70 : 70 Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
• Luke 4:8 : 8 And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'
• Gen 3:1-6 : 1 And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' 2 And the woman saith unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, 3 and of the fruit of the tree which `is' in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.' 4 And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die, 5 for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it -- your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.' 6 And the woman seeth that the tree `is' good for food, and that it `is' pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make `one' wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
• Gen 3:17 : 17 And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed `is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
• 2 Sam 19:22 : 22 And David saith, `What -- to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I `am' king over Israel?'
• 1 Chr 21:1 : 1 And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,
• Isa 8:14 : 14 And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• Zech 3:1-2 : 1 And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him. 2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?'
• Rom 14:13 : 13 no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.
• 2 Cor 11:14-15 : 14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
• Matt 18:7 : 7 `Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but wo to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!