[the latter] is set free. The demon deprecates either the ex pulsion itself, or a second tormenting added to the expulsion.
8. To) The language is so framed, as if it were of only one demon ; and ver. 13, 9, imply there were many demons, who rendered obedience to one superior, as a legion does to its commander. That one alone, and pre-eminently, seems to main tain a continual and uninterrupted connection with his own legion, inasmuch as they are comprehended under his own name.
9. Atysuv, Legion) An appellation by Synecdoche [see Ap pend., the genus for the species]. There was one principal leader among them, and the rest were conjoined with him, con stituting thus the legion : and this, whether he had previously borne this Latin name, before that he entered this man, or then first assumed it. — ToXXo/ sa^tv, we are many) Luke affirms this in his own words [not in the man's or the demon's], ch. viii. 30. If in one nest [dwelling] there can be so many, how many there must be in the whole aggregate throughout the world! \_Mere number in itself does not produce protection (patronage). — V. g.]
10. Hap fxahtt, he besought) The singular number ; the plural occurs in ver. 12. — y^p«,c, the country) which they loved, and were then dwelling in. [-Ami so, therefore, being acquainted with the men of that country, they icere meditating to inflict the more injury by means of their acquaintance with them. — V. g.] But it is marvellous that they did not avoid the locality in which the Messiah, the destroyer of their power, was sojourning.
12. ndvrt;, all) with one consent.
13. EMius, forthwith) He did not require to deliberate in any case. — us bi<syj\iot, about two thousand) The name legion implied a number exceeding this.
14. 'A^/yE/Xav, announced it) to those to whom the swine had belonged, in the city and in the fields [the country].
15. Kadrj'Jbtvov, ifj,a,ri<f[j,evov, (fcappovovvTa, sitting, clothed, in his sound mind) whereas previously he had been without rest, clothes, and the use of his reason. Those who had witnessed the miracle may have given him the clothes. He put forth and showed his possession of reason in his actions. — rbv teysura, the legion) This name seems to have been known in that locality, and to have kept the inhabitants in a state of fright. For there