26. And when the unclean spirit had torn him--Luke
(Lu 4:35)
says, "When he had thrown him in the midst." Malignant cruelty--just
showing what he would have done, if permitted to go farther: it
was a last fling!
and cried with a loud voice--the voice of enforced submission and
despair.
he came out of him--Luke
(Lu 4:35)
adds, "and hurt him not." Thus impotent were the malignity and rage of
the impure spirit when under the restraint of "the Stronger than the
strong one armed"
(Lu 11:21, 22).
JFB.
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