CHAPTER V. _The man possessed with a legion of demons cured_, 1-20. _He raises Jairus's daughter to life, and cures the woman who_ _had an issue of blood_, 21-43. NOTES ON CHAP. V. Verse Mark 5:1. _THE GADARENES._] Some of the MSS. have _Gergasenes_, and some of them _Gerasenes. Griesbach_ seem... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:2. _A MAN WITH AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT_] There are two mentioned by Matthew, who are termed _demoniacs_. Mark 1:23, Mark 1:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:3. _WHO HAD_ HIS _DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS_] See Matthew 8:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:4. _WITH FETTERS AND CHAINS_] His strength, it appears was _supernatural_, no kind of chains being strong enough to confine him. With several, this man would have passed for an _outrageous_ _madman_, and diabolic influence be entirely left out of the question; but it is the prerogative... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:5. _CRYING AND CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES._] In this person's case we see a specimen of what Satan _could do_ in _all_ the wicked, if God should permit him; but even the devil himself has his _chain_; and he who often _binds_ others, is _always_ bound himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:6. _WORSHIPPED HIM_] _Did him homage_; compelled thereto by the power of God. How humiliating to Satan, thus to be obliged to acknowledge the superiority of Christ!... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:7. _WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE_] Or, _What is it to thee_ _and me_, or _why dost thou trouble thyself with me_? Mark 1:24, Mark 1:24, and Matthew 8:29, Matthew 8:29, where the _idiom_ and _meaning_ are explained. _JESUS_] This is omitted by four MSS., and by several in Luke 8:28, and... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:9. _LEGION: FOR WE ARE MANY._] Could a _disease_ have spoken so? "No, there was no devil in the case; the man spoke according to the prejudice of his countrymen." And do you think that the _Spirit of God_ could employ himself in retailing such ridiculous and nonsensical prejudices? "But... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:10. _OUT OF THE COUNTRY._] Strange that these accursed spirits should find it any mitigation of their misery to be permitted to exercise their malevolence in a _particular_ district! But as this is supposed to have been a _heathen_ district, therefore the demons might consider themselve... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:11. _A GREAT HERD OF SWINE_] Matthew 8:30, Matthew 8:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:12. ALL _THE DEVILS_] παντες, _all_, is omitted by many MSS. and versions; _Griesbach_ leaves it out of the text. οι δαιμονες is omitted also by several: _Griesbach_ leaves it doubtful. Probably it should be read thus, _And they besought him, saying_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:13. _GAVE THEM LEAVE._] For επετρεψεν, DH, three others, and three copies of the _Itala_ have επεμψεν, _sent_ them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:14. _THE SWINE_] Instead of τους χοιρους, BCDL, three others, _Syriac, Coptic, AEthiopic, Vulgate_, and _Itala_, read αυτους, _them-And they that fed_ THEM _fled. Griesbach_ has adopted this reading.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:15. _THAT - HAD THE LEGION_] This is omitted by D, and two others, _AEthiopic, Persic, Vulgate_, and all the _Itala_ but one. _Mill, Bengel_, and _Griesbach_, think it should be omitted.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 19. _SUFFERED HIM NOT_] ο δε ινσους, _Howbeit Jesus_, is omitted by ABKLM, twenty-seven others, both the _Syriac_, both the _Persic, Coptic, Gothic, Vulgate_, and one of the _Itala. Mill_ and _Bengel_ approve of the omission, and _Griesbach_ leaves it out of the text. _GO HOME TO THY FRIENDS_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 20. _DECAPOLIS_] Matthew 4:25, Matthew 4:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 23. _MY LITTLE DAUGHTER_] το θυγατριον μου, _that little_ _daughter of mine_. The words express much tenderness and concern. Luke observes, Luke 8:42, that she was his _only daughter_, and was about _twelve years of age_. _AT THE POINT OF DEATH_] εσχατως εχει, _in the last extremity,_ _the la... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 25. _A CERTAIN WOMAN_] See Matthew 9:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 26. _HAD SUFFERED MANY THINGS OF MANY PHYSICIANS, - AND WAS_ _nothing bettered, but rather grew worse_] No person will wonder at this account, when he considers the _therapeutics_ of the Jewish physicians in reference to hemorrhages, especially of the kind with which this woman was afflicted.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 27. _CAME IN THE PRESS BEHIND_] She had _formed_ her resolution in _faith_, she _executes_ it, notwithstanding her weakness, c., with _courage_ and now she finds it crowned with _success_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 31. _THOU SEEST THE MULTITUDE THRONGING THEN_, c.] Many _touch_ Jesus who are not _healed_ by him: the reason is, they do it not by _faith_, through a _sense_ of their _wants_, and a _conviction_ of his _ability_ and _willingness_ to save them. Faith conveys the virtue of Christ into the soul,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 33. _FEARING AND TREMBLING_] See Matthew 9:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 34. _BE WHOLE OF THY PLAGUE._] Rather, _continue whole_, not, _be whole_, for she was already _healed_: but this contains a _promise_, necessary to her _encouragement_, that her disorder should afflict her _no more_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 35. _WHY TROUBLEST THOU THE MASTER_] These people seem to have had no other notion of our Lord than that of an eminent physician, who might be useful while there was _life_, but afterwards could do nothing.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 36. _JESUS - SAITH_] These words were spoken by our Lord to the afflicted father, immediately on his hearing of the death of his child, to prevent that distress which he otherwise must have felt on finding that the case was now, humanly speaking, hopeless.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 38. _HE COMETH_] But ερονται, _they come_, is the reading of ABCDF, four others, and several versions. _WEPT AND WAILED_] Matthew 9:23, Matthew 9:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:40. _THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER_] Prudence required that _they_ should be present, and be witnesses of the miracle. _AND THEM THAT WERE WITH HIM_] That is, _Peter, James_, and _John_, Mark 5:37. It is remarkable that our Lord gave a particular preference to these three disciples, beyond... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:41. _TALITHA CUMI_] [Syriac], This is mere _Syriac_, the proper translation of which the evangelist has given. The Codex Bezae has a very odd and unaccountable reading here, ραββι θαβιτα κουμι, _My master. Damsel arise. Suidas_ quotes this place under the word αββακουμ thus ταληθα κουμ.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 5:43. _SOMETHING SHOULD BE GIVEN HER TO EAT._] For though he had employed an _extraordinary_ power to bring her to life, he wills that she should be continued in existence by the use of _ordinary_ means. The advice of the heathen is a good one: - _Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice n... [ Continue Reading ]