Matthew 17:14-21
when.Mr 9:14-29; Lu 9:37-43kneeling.Mr 1:40; 10:17; Ac 10:25,26 have.15:22; Mr 5:22,23; 9:22; Lu 9:38-42; Joh 4:46,47for.4:24; Mr 9:17,18,20-22he is.[Seleniazomai ,] from [selene ,] the moon, one who was affected with his disorder at the change and full of the moon. This is the case in some kinds of madness and epilepsy. This youth was no doubt epileptic; but it was evidently either produced or taken advantage of by a demon or evil spirit. for ofttimes.8:31,32; Job 1:10-19; 2:7; Mr 5:4,5 and they.19,20; 2Ki 4:29-31; Lu 9:40; Ac 3:16; 19:15,16 O faithless.6:30; 8:26; 13:58; 16:8; Mr 9:19; 16:14; Lu 9:41; 24:25; Joh 20:27Heb 3:16-19how long shall I be.Ex 10:3; 16:28; Nu 14:11,27; Ps 95:10; Pr 1:22; 6:9; Jer 4:14Ac 13:18 rebuked.12:22; Mr 1:34; 5:8; 9:25-27; Lu 4:35,36,41; 8:29; 9:42Ac 16:18; 19:13-15from.9:22; 15:28; Joh 4:52,53 Mr 4:10; 9:28 Because.17; 14:30,31; Heb 3:19If.21:21; Mr 11:23; Lu 17:6; 1Co 12:9; 13:2faith.That is, as Bp. Pearce well remarks, a thriving and increasing faith, like a grain of mustard seed, which, from being the least of seeds, becomes the greatest of all herbs. a grain.13:31; Mr 4:31nothing.Mr 9:23; Lu 1:37; 18:27 this.12:45but.1Ki 17:20,21; Da 9:3; Mr 9:29; Ac 13:2,3; 14:23; 1Co 7:5; 2Co 11:27Eph 6:18Mark 9:14-29
when.Mt 17:14-21; Lu 9:37the scribes.2:6; 11:28; 12:14; Lu 11:53,54; Heb 12:3 were.2,3; Ex 34:30 What.8:11; Lu 5:30-32with them. or, among yourselves. I.5:23; 7:26; 10:13; Mt 17:15; Lu 9:38; Joh 4:47a dumb.25; Mt 12:22; Lu 11:14 teareth him. or, dasheth him.26; Mt 15:22; Lu 9:39he foameth.As these symptoms accord very much with those of epileptic persons, some have ventured to assert that it was no real possession; but the evangelist expressly affirms that he had a "dumb spirit" which tare him, that our Lord charged him to "come out of him," etc. 20; Jude 1:13gnasheth.Job 16:9; Ps 112:10; Mt 8:12; Ac 7:54and they.28,29; 11:23; 2Ki 4:29-31; Mt 17:16,19-21; Lu 9:40 O faithless.16:14; Nu 14:11,22,27; 32:13,14; De 32:20; Ps 78:6-8,22; 106:21-25Mt 17:17; Lu 9:41; 24:25; Joh 12:27; 20:27; Heb 3:10-12 the spirit.18,26; 1:26; 5:3-5; Job 1:10-12; 2:6-8; Lu 4:35; 8:29; 9:42; Joh 8:441Pe 5:8 How.5:25; Job 5:7; 14:1; Ps 51:5; Lu 8:43; 13:16; Joh 5:5,6; 9:1,20,21Ac 3:2; 4:22; 9:33; 14:8 if.1:40-42; Mt 8:2,8,9; 9:28; 14:31have.5:19; Mt 15:22-28; 20:34; Lu 7:13 If.11:23; 2Ch 20:20; Mt 17:20; 21:21,22; Lu 17:6; Joh 4:48-50; 11:40Ac 14:9; Heb 11:6 with.2Sa 16:12; *marg:2Ki 20:5; Ps 39:12; 126:5; Jer 14:17; Lu 7:38,44; Ac 10:19,312Co 2:4; 2Ti 1:4; Heb 5:7; 12:17help.Lu 17:5; Eph 2:8; Php 1:29; 2Th 1:3,11; Heb 12:2 he rebuked.1:25-27; 5:7,8; Zec 3:2; Mt 17:18; Lu 4:35,41; 9:42; Jude 1:9thou.If this had been only a natural disease, as some have contended, could our Lord with any propriety have thus addressed it? If the demoniacal possession had been false, or merely a vulgar error, would our Lord, the Revealer of truth, have thus established falsehood, sanctioned error, or encouraged deception, by teaching men to ascribe effects to the malice and power of evil spirits, which they had no agency in producing? Impossible! Such conduct is utterly unworthy the sacred character of the Redeemer. Isa 35:5,6; Mt 9:32,33; 12:22; Lu 11:14I charge.Lu 8:29; Ac 16:18 cried.18,20; 1:26; Ex 5:23; Re 12:12 1:31,41; 5:41; 8:23; Isa 41:13; Ac 3:7; 9:41 asked.4:10,34; Mt 13:10,36; 15:15Why.Mt 17:19,20 This.Mt 12:45; Lu 11:26by prayer.1Ki 17:20-22; 2Ki 4:33,34; Mt 17:21; Ac 9:40,41; 2Co 12:8; Eph 6:18Jas 5:15fasting.Da 9:3; Ac 14:23; 1Co 9:27; 2Co 6:5; 11:27
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