Get Thee Hence Satan
When the devil came tempting Moses, the prophet resisted him and said, “Get thee hence, Satan; deceive me not; for God said unto me: Thou art after the similitude of mine Only Begotten” (Moses 1:16). It may be that the Savior was quoting Moses when He responded to the temptations from the devil he received: “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve” (Matthew 4:10). The Savior also relied on the words of Moses, or at least the words of the book of Deuteronomy, in His responses to all three temptations. With each He said, “It is written,” and he quoted the words of Moses in the law as a protection from the adversary. Later on in His ministry the Savior may have also been quoting Moses when He rejected the idea of Peter. After Jesus had explained that He would “go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day,” Peter replied, “Be it far...