Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 10:18

18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Lightning comes suddenly, and with Thunder. The Thunder of the Gospel ▪ brought down the Devil as Lightning, and indeed this is observable, the Devil is so busie in no places where the Gospel prevails, as in places where that joyful Sound is not come, whether we consider his Power with reference to Mens Bodies or Souls. This is one general advantage of Gospel Preaching, the Devil will not indure the sound of it, so as to impose upon Man-kind, at that rate which he doth upon ignorant Persons, that are Heathens, or only differing from them in that they are Baptized, and call themselves Christians. Christ saw this, as God, for the Devil is not visible to humane Senses, as neither are any Spirits, which shewed the impudence of that Popish Impostor in Germany, who selling Indulgences (by which he pretended Souls were delivered from Purgatory) called to the People to look up and see them fly away. But Christ could see it as God, for he certainly knew, that it would be, and that it already was the Blessed effect of the Gospel.