Mark 5:1
THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES. — The better MSS. give “Gerasenes,” some “Gergesenes.”... [ Continue Reading ]
THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES. — The better MSS. give “Gerasenes,” some “Gergesenes.”... [ Continue Reading ]
V. (1-20) See Notes on Matthew 8:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
A MAN WITH AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT. — The phrase. though not peculiar to St. Mark, is often used by him where the other Gospels have “possessed with demons, or devils.” St. Mark and St. Luke, it will be noticed, speak of one only; St. Matthew of two.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN COULD BIND HIM. — The better MSS. give, “no man could any longer bind him.” The attempt had been so often made and baffled that it had been given up in despair.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOUND WITH FETTERS AND CHAINS. — These were not necessarily of metal. The two processes of snapping the latter by one convulsive movement and wearing away (not “breaking”) the latter by friction, rather suggests the idea of ropes, or cords, as in the case of Samson (Judges 15:13). In Psalms 149:8 th... [ Continue Reading ]
CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES. — This feature, again, is given only by St. Mark.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE RAN AND WORSHIPPED HIM. — The precise attitude would be that of one who not only knelt but touched the ground with his forehead in token of his suppliant reverence.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. — This is the first occurrence of the name in the New Testament, and is therefore a fit place for a few words as to its history. As a divine name “the Most High God” belonged to the earliest stage of the patriarchal worship of the one Supreme Deity. Melchizedek appears... [ Continue Reading ]