Mark 1:26. Had torn him . A paroxysm attended the dispossession (comp. chap. Mark 9:26; Luke 9:42); not a natural convulsion, but the malicious act of the demon. Cried with a loud voice. The act of the demon, not a cry of pain from the demoniac. Luke (Luke 4:35) adds that the demon ‘hurt him not.' The graphic and minute description forbids the view that this was a cure of epilepsy.

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