George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 12:45
Seven is taken frequently, in Scripture, for an indefinite number; for several. (Bible de Vence)
Seven is taken frequently, in Scripture, for an indefinite number; for several. (Bible de Vence)
Verse 45. _SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS MORE WICKED_] _Seven_ was a favourite number with the Jews, implying frequently, with them, something _perfect, completed, filled up_, for such is the proper import of...
WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT ... - The “general sentiment” which our Saviour here teaches is much more easily understood than the illustration which he uses. The Jews had asked a sign from heaven that shou...
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
JESUS-' ANSWER TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES, AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY (Mark 3:20 *, Luke 11:14; Luke 11:29; Luke 12:10;...
The connexion of Matthew 12:43 is with Matthew 12:30, as is shown by Lk.; neutrality in the spiritual life cannot last. The point of the illustration is that the Jews had felt the influence of John an...
"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, it goes through waterless places, seeking for rest, and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will go back to my house, from which I came out,' and when it come...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
HIMSELF. itself. MORE WICKED. Showing that there are degrees of wickedness among spirits and demons. See Matthew 17:21.Acts 16:16; Acts 16:17, &c. THE LAST STATE. See...
_Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation_ Israel had cast forth the demon of idolatry the sin of its earlier history, but worse demons had entered in the more insidious and dangerous sins...
A Figure to illustrate the surpassing Wickedness of the day Luke 11:24-26, where the connection is different. St Luke, as usual, omits the direct application to Israel. The connection is not clearly...
A FIGURE TO ILLUSTRATE THE SURPASSING WICKEDNESS OF THE DAY Luke 11:24-26, where the connection is different. St Luke, as usual, omits the direct application to Israel. This short parable explains th...
ΟὝΤΩΣ ἜΣΤΑΙ ΚΑῚ ΤΗ͂Ι ΓΕΝΕΑ͂Ι ΤΑΎΤΗΙ. Israel had cast forth the demon of idolatry—the sin of its earlier history, but worse demons had entered in—the more insidious and dangerous sins of hypocrisy and...
VER 43. "WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN, HE WALKETH THROUGH DRY PLACES, SEEKING REST, AND FINDETH NONE. 44. THEN HE SAITH, I WILL RETURN INTO MY HOUSE FROM WHENCE I CAME OUT; AND WHEN HE...
_THE CLAIMS OF THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:38-45:_ Jesus had every right to call on people to repent and to be righteous, (1) He is greater than the temple (Matthew 12:6), (2) He is greater that Jonah (Matt...
ΠΟΝΗΡΌΤΕΡΑ (G4190) _сотр._ более злой, ΈΑΥΤΟΎ (G1438) _gen._ сравнения: "чем он сам" ΕΊΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΑ _aor. act. part., см._ Matthew 12:4. _Сопутств._ или временное _part._ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_...
DISCOURSE: 1358 THE RELAPSED DΖMONIAC Matthew 12:43. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my h...
WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT, &C.— Our Lord here finishes his defence, alluding to the occasion of the dispute, Matthew 12:22 with a parable of a possessed person who, having had a devilor demon expelled o...
Section 29 JESUS GIVES THE SIGN OF JONAH (Possible Parallel: Luke 11:16; Luke 11:24; Luke 11:26; Luke 11:29-32) TEXT: 12:38-45 38.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT IS GONE OUT OF A MAN ... On this important parable, in connectio...
42 “The ends of the earth,” an expression which does not include the sea, would describe any location on Eurasia or Africa not far from the further coast line. 43-45 Compare Luk_11:24-26 43 Actual i...
THE RETURN OF THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT (Luke 11:24). The connexion in St. Matthew is preferable. The expulsion of the evil spirit represents the submission of the nation to the baptism of John, which was a...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
A SIGN DEMANDED. Astounding impudence after they had just ascribed His miracles to Beelzebub, and declared Him possessed with an unclean spirit. It was the practice of Jesus to work signs for those wh...
SEVEN] Symbolical for completeness. As many as the house will hold. Mary of Magdala had seven devils (Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS MORE WICKED THAN HIMSELF. — The number seven, as in the case of Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2), represents a greater intensity of possession, showing itself in more violent p...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
ἑπτὰ ἕτερα πνεύματα, etc. This feature is introduced to make the picture answer to the moral condition of the Pharisees as conceived by Jesus. The parable here passes out of the region of popular imag...
_A comparison. Cf._ Luke 11:24-26. Formerly Jesus had likened the evil race of Pharisaic religionists to children playing in the market-place (Matthew 9:16-19). Now He uses expelled demons to depict t...
_A sign asked and refused, with relative discourse_ (Luke 11:16; Luke 11:29-36). Both Matt.'s and Luke's reports convey the impression that the demand for a sign, and the enunciation of the Satanic th...
OPPOSING OR DOING GOD'S WILL Matthew 12:38-50 It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation, and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself would have co...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
AWFUL STATE OF THE BACKSLIDER Matthew 12:43-45. _“When the unclean spirit may go out from a man, he goeth through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.”_ Here we see the man is converted; this un...
CHAPTER 24 THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SEEK A SIGN FROM HEAVEN Matthew 12:38-45; Luke 11:16-36. “Then certain ones of the scribes and Pharisees responded, saying, Master, we wish to see a sign from The...
"Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. (39) But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a si...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE DEVIL DETHRONED_ ‘When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man … the last state of that man is worse than the first.’ Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out, Christ tells what takes...
45._He taketh with him seven other spirits _The number _seven _is here used indefinitely, as in many other passages. By these words Christ shows that if we fall from his grace, our subjection to Satan...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
THEN GOETH HE, AND TAKETH WITH HIMSELF SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS,.... This is said in allusion to, and in imitation of the seven spirits before the throne; or may denote a large number of devils, seven bein...
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last _state_ of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be al...
_When the unclean spirit_, &c. In these verses, with a view to show how dreadful the state of the Jewish people would be, if they continued to reject him and his gospel, our Lord introduces a parable,...
SEVEN; a large or full number. MORE WICKED; some totally wicked spirits are more wicked than others. WORSE THAN THE FIRST; if men do not grow better under the means of grace, and permit the Holy Spi...
Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also...
A comparison:...
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
38-45 Though Christ is always ready to hear and answer holy desires and prayers, yet those who ask amiss, ask and have not. Signs were granted to those who desired them to confirm their faith, as Abr...
Ver. 43-45. The speech appeareth parabolical, the persons concerned in it are expressed in the last words, the men of that wicked generation. The text is thought to be well expounded by Peter, 2 PETER...
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fifth But it does not turn away those who are full of faith, nor does it act on them, for the power of the Lord is with them. It is the thoughtless and doubting that it...
Matthew 12:45 Then G5119 goes G4198 (G5736) and G2532 takes G3880 (G5719) with G3326 him G1438 seven...
‘Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there, and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it also b...
THE SAD PLIGHT OF THIS GENERATION (12:43-45). This short illustration takes up the themes that have previously been presented and is firmly in context. Compare (Matthew 12:1) the being healed from an...
Matthew 12:45. THEN, seeing this inviting residence. SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS, etc. To be understood indefinitely, of a more complete and terrible possession; there being no resistance to their entrance....
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50) after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
GENERATION (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 24:34). _...
Matthew 12:45 Growing Worse. I. It must be remembered that we all begin with certain faults different persons with different faults. What we mean by a man's character getting worse is that these faul...
Matthew 12:38. _Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh...
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
43-45. WHEN AN EVIL SPIRIT. This is a parable, and its meaning is based on the last sentence: _"This is the way it will happen to the evil people of this day."_ This is the climax of the passage which...
_When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man._ FURNISHED, BUT VACANT The central lesson of this text is this: that reformation is not necessarily salvation-that, indeed, reformation without godlines...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:45 SEVEN. Linked in Scripture with completion or perfection. Here perhaps it signifies the completeness of demon possession once the demon returns....
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT UNCLEAN SPIRITS MATTHEW 12:43-45; LUKE 11:24-26; MATTHEW 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none....
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:38. A SIGN.—See Luke 11:16. They wanted something of an immediate and decisive nature, to show, not that His miracles were real—that they seemed willing to concede—but that...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
1 John 5:16; 1 John 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16;...
Seven other spirits — That is, a great many; a certain number being put for an uncertain: More wicked than himself — Whence it appears, that there are degrees of wickedness among the devils themselves...