Matthew 4:9

εἶπεν for λέγει with the same weight of authority.

9. ταῦτά σοι πάντα δώσω. Satan, the ‘prince of this world’ (John 12:31), claims the disposal of earthly thrones. This is more clearly brought out by St Luke (Luke 4:6), ‘All this power will I give thee and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.’ The arrogance, selfishness and cruelty of contemporary rulers would give force to such an assumption. A Tiberius or a Herod Antipas might indeed be thought to have worshipped Satan.

ἐὰν πεσὼν προσκυνήσῃς μοι, i.e. acknowledge as sovereign, as the lesser kings acknowledged Cæsar: jus imperiumque Phraates | Cæsaris accepit genibus minor. Hor. Ep. I. 12. 27.