Cried out (dvaxpdfas). The compound verb with ava, up, implies what is conveyed by our phrase, lifting wp the voice. See on Mark v. 5.
What have I to do with thee? See on Mark v. 7.
Torment (Bacavions). See on Matt. iv. 24. Luke never uses the word of séchness, as Matt. viii. 6. See on ch. iv. 41.
29. He had commanded (capyyyedrev). Imperfect tense. Rev. does not improve by reading he commanded. The imper- fect expresses the simultaneousness of the exorcism and the cry
torment me not. Better, for he was commanding. So the Am. Rev.
It had seized (cuvnpmdxe.). Used by Luke only. See Acts vi. 12; xxvii. 15. The verb literally means to snatch and carry away with (cur).
He was kept bound (édecpevero dudracacopuevos). Lit., he was bound, being guarded. Rev., was kept under guard and bound. The A. V. does not sufficiently bring out the vigilance with which he was attended.
Chains and fetters. See on Mark v. 4.
Breaking dcapyoowv). Compare Mark iv. 4, and see note there.
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Was driven, etc. Peculiar to Luke. 30. Many devils were, etc. Compare Mark y. 9. 31. Command them. The plural, referring to the legion.
The deep (aBuccov). Lit., the bottomless. Transcribed into our abyss, as Rev. Mark has a quite different request, that he would not send them out of the country (v. 10). In Rom. x. 7, used of Hades, to which Christ descended; and in Apoc. always of the bottomless pit. The demons refer to their place of abode and torment.
33. Ran violently (@puncev). Rev., more neatly, rushed. Only Mark gives the number of the swine, two thousand.
A steep place. See on Matt. ix. 32.
36. He that was possessed with devils. Expressed in the Greek by two words, 0 datpovictets, the demonized.
Was healed (éc@97). See on ch. vi. 19.
37. They were taken (cvveiyovto). See on ch. iv. 38. The same word as of the fever.
38. Besought (édéero). Imperfect: was beseeching. See on prayers, ch. v. 33. Rev., prayed. Beseech is used to render mapaxakéw (Mark v. 10). See on consolation, ch. vi. 24. Tlapaxaréo, beseech, is used of prayer to God in only one in- stance, 2 Cor. xii. 8, where Paul besought the Lord to remove the thorn in the flesh. Frequently of requests to Christ while onearth. Aéouat, to pray, often of prayer to God (Matt. ix. 38; Luke x. 2; Acts viii. 22). It is noticeable that in ver. 28, where the demons address Christ as the Son of the highest God, they say Séouas, I pray. In vv. 31, 32, where they ask not to be sent away, and to be allowed to enter into the swine, they say wapaxanéw, I beseech. The restored man, recognizing
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Jesus’ divine power, prayed (édetro) to be with him. The dis- tinction, however, must not be closely pressed. The two words seem to be often used interchangeably in the New Testament.
39. Shew (Simyod). Rather relate, recount, with the idea of telling the story throughout (61a). See on declaration, ch. i. 1.
Throughout the whole city. Mark says in Decapolis.
How great things (60a). Lit., how many things, and thus according with recount. Declared all things throughout, as many as Jesus had done.
41-56. Compare Matt. ix. 18-26; Mark v. 22-43.
41. Jairus. The name of one of the Israelite chiefs, Jazr, who conquered and settled Bashan (Num. xxxii. 41; Josh. xiii. 30). ‘* His name lingered down to the time of the Christian era, when, in the same region as that which he conquered, we find a ruler of the synagogue named Jair” (Stanley, “ Jewish Church ”).
42. Thronged (cvvérmyov). With the idea of pressing together (ovv) upon him: stifling. The simple verb is that ren- dered choke, as in vv. 8, 33.