βασανίσῃς. 29. ΠαρήγγελλεΣ γὰρ τῷ mvedpan τῷ ἀκαθάρτα ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου: πολλοῖς γὰρ ἈΧβρόνοις συνηρπάκει αὐτόν, καὶ ἐδεσμεῖτο: ἁλύσεσι καὶ πέδαις Φυλασσόμενος, καὶ διαρρήσσων τὰ Seopa ἠλαύνετο ὑπὸ * τοῦ Saipovos* εἰς τὰς ἐρήμους. 30. ἐπηρώτησε δὲ αὐτὸν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, λέγων,ὃ “Τί σοι ἐστὶν ὄνομα ® ;* ‘O δὲ etme, “'Λεγεών'” ὅτι δαιμόνια πολλὰ εἰσῆλθεν Ἰ eis αὐτόν. 31. καὶ παρεκάλει ὃ αὐτὸν ἵνα μὴ ἐπιτάξη αὗτοῖς eis τὴν ἄβυσσον ἀπελθεῖν. 32. ἦν δὲ ἐκεῖ ἀγέλη χοίρων ἱκανῶν βοσκοµένων ® ἐν τῷ ὄρει: καὶ παρεκάλουν 10 αὐτὸν ἵνα ἐπιτρέψῃ αὐτοῖς εἰς ἐκείνους εἰσελθεῖν. καὶ ἐπέτρεψεν αὐτοῖς. 33. ἐξελθόντα δὲ τὰ δαιμόνια ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰσῆλθεν 1 εἰς τοὺς χοίρους: καὶ ὥρμησεν ἡ ἀγέλη κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ εἰς τὴν λίμνην, καὶ ἀπεπνίγη. 34. ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ βόσκοντες τὸ γεγενημένον 1” ἔφυγον, καὶ ἀπελθόντες 15 ἀπήγγειλαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ Eis τοὺς ἀγρούς. 35. ἐξῆλθον δὲ ἰδεῖν τὸ γεγονός : καὶ ἦλθον πρὸς τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν, καὶ εὗρον καθήµενον τὸν ἄνθρωπον ad’
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1 παρηγγειλεν in BE 69 (W.H. πιατρ.). 2So in CD and other uncials.
3 So in most uncials. 4 δαιµονιον in NBCDE (Tisch., W.H.),
NBLXZ 33 have εδεσµενετο. Seopevw are both rare (latter in Mt. xxiii. 4).
BE have απο (W.H. text).
δεσµεω and
5 Omit Aeyov NB 1 al. vet. Lat. (W.H.) against CDL (Tisch.).
6 ovopa εστιν in NBDLE 1, 33 al. 8 παρεκαλουν in S&BCDL minusc.
7 εισηλθεν before δαιµ. in NB.
T.R. a correction.
9 So in very many uncials, but BD have βοσκοµενη (W.H. text).
10 παρεκαλεσαν in BCLE 1, 33 al. 12 γεγονος in ΝΑΒΟΡΙ:Ξ al. fl.
out of the city to meet Jesus.—éxwv δαιµ., having demons, a plurality with reference to ver. 30.—ovK ἐνεδύσατο, etc. : the description begun here is com- pleted in ver. 29. Mk. gives it all at once (v. 2-5). Lk. seems to follow Mk. but freely—unclothed, abode among the tombs, the two facts first mentioned.— Ver. 29. παρήγγελλεν yap: the com- mand caused the cry of fear, and the fear is explained in the clause following, introduced. by a second γὰρ----πολλοῖς χβόνοις, answers to πολλάκις in Mk. ν. 4, therefore presumably used in the sense: oftentimes, frequently. So Eras- mus and Grotius, and most recent com- mentators. Meyer and others take it = during along time. Schanz combines the two senses. The disease was of an intermittent character, there were paroxysms of acute mania, and intervals of comparative quiet and rationality. When the paroxysms came on, the demon (one in ver. 29) was supposed to
1 εισηλθον in most uncials. 1 Omit απελθ. all uncials.
seize him (συνηρπάκει). Then he had to be bound in chains and fetters, and kept under guard (Φνλασσόμενος, cf. A. V. and R. V. here), but all to no pur- pose, the demoniac force bursting the bonds and driving the poor victim into the deserts. The madman feared the return of an attack, hence his alarmed cry.—Ver. 30. ὅτι εἰσῆλθεν, etc.: Lk, gives this explanation of the name Legion ; in Mk. the demoniac gives it.— Ver. 31. eis τὴν ἄβυσσον, into the abyss (of Tartarus) instead of Mk.’s ἔξω τῆς χώρας, out of Decapolis.—Ver. 32. χοίρ. ἱκανῶν: for a large number, often in Lk.; his equivalent for Mk.’s 2000.
Vv. 34-39. The sequel. Lk. tells the second part of the story very much as it is given in Mk., with slight stylistic variations. In ver. 36 he substitutes the expression πῶς ἐσώθη 6 δαιµονισθείς, how the demoniac was saved, for Mk.’s ‘how it happened to the demoniac, and concerning the swine,” suggesting the
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