Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 10:17

17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

As we before read of the Twelve coming back to give Christ an account of their success, so we here have the same of the Seventy; whether this Joy of the Seventy was more Carnal than it ought, they rather rejoycing in that new Power which they had received from Christ, than in the Demonstration of Christs Divine Power, and the Confirmation of the Doctrine of the Gospel by these Miraculous Operations, is hard to determine; for tho Christs reply, seemeth to have a Check in it, yet it is so qualifyed by the Term Rather, v. 20. that we cannot from thence absolutely conclude any such thing from it. Here is a difference to be observed betwixt Christs and his Disciples casting out of Devils. Christ did it in his own Name, by his own Word of Command, Power and Authority; the Disciples did it in Christs Name, and by a Power, and Authority derived from him.