And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

And when the unclean spirit had torn him. Luke () says, "When he had thrown him in the midst." Malignant cruelty-just showing what he would have done, if permitted to go further: it was a last fling!

And cried with a loud voice - the voice of enforced submission and despair --

He came out of him. Luke () adds, "and hurt him not." Thus impotent were the malignity and rage of the impure spirit when under the restraint of "the Stronger One than the strong one armed" (Luke 11:21).

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