Numbers 19:11

toucheth the dead.He who touched a dead beast was only unclean for one day, (Le 11:12, 27, 39;) but he who touches a dead man is unclean for seven days. This was certainly designed to show the peculiar impurity and sinfulness of man, and the hatefulness of sin, seven times worse than the vilest animal!

16; 5:2; 9:6,10; 31:19; Le 11:31; 21:1,11; La 4:14; Hag 2:13

Ro 5:12; 2Co 6:17; Eph 2:1; Heb 9:14

man. Heb. soul of man.

Numbers 19:16-20

toucheth.

11; 31:19

a bone.

Eze 39:11-16

a grave.

Mt 23:27; Lu 11:44

ashes. Heb. dust.

9

running water shall be put thereto. Heb. living waters shallbe given.

Ge 26:19; *marg:

So 4:15; Joh 4:10,11; 7:38; Re 7:17

9; Ps 51:7; Eze 36:25-27; Joh 15:2,3; 17:17,19; 1Co 1:30; Heb 9:14

shall sprinkle.

Eph 5:25-27; Tit 2:14; 3:3-5; 1Jo 1:7; 2:1,2; Jude 1:23; Re 1:5,6

on the seventh day he.

12; 31:19; Ge 2:2; Le 14:9

shall not.

13; 15:30; Ge 17:14; Mr 16:16; Ac 13:39-41; Ro 2:4,5; 2Pe 3:14

Re 22:11

Deuteronomy 18:11

or a necromancer.

1Sa 28:11-14

Matthew 8:28

when.

Mr 5:1-20; Lu 8:26-39; Ac 10:38

Gergesenes.Some are of opinion that Gergasa was the country of the ancient Girgashites; but it is more probable the Gergesenes was introduced by Origen upon mere conjecture; as before him most copies seem to have read Gadarenes, agreeable to the Parallel Passages and the ancient Syriac version. Gadara, says Josephus, was the metropolis of Peraea, or the region beyond Jordan; and he also observes that it was sixty furlongs, or about eight miles from Tiberias. It is therefore rightly placed opposite Tiberias, at the southeast end of the lake. Pliny says it was called Hippodion, was one of the cities of Decapolis, and had the river Hieromax, or Jarmouk, flowing before it. It was of heathen jurisdiction; whence perhaps it was destroyed by the Jews; but was rebuilt by Pompey, and joined to the province of Syria. Augustus afterwards gave it to Herod, on whose death it was again annexed to Syria. It is now called Om Keis; its ruins are in a very mutilated state, and when visited by Burckhardt it had not a single inhabitant. The remains of the sepulchral caverns in which the demoniacs abode are still to be seen.

Ge 10:16; 15:21; De 7:1

coming.

Mr 5:2-5; Lu 8:27,29

so.

Jud 5:6

Mark 5:2-5

out.

Isa 65:4; Lu 8:27

a man.Matthew gives a brief account of two demoniacs who were dispossessed on this occasion; but Mark and Luke omit the mention of one (who was perhaps not so remarkable). That these wretched men were not merely mad, as some suppose, but really possessed of evil spirits, appears clearly from the language employed, as well as from the narrative itself. Matthew expressly affirms that they were "possessed with devils," or demoniacs, [daimonizomai ;] Mark says he had "an unclean spirit," i.e., a fallen spirit; and Luke asserts, that he "had devils (or demons) a long time," and was called Legion, "because many devils were entered into him." With supernatural strength the demons burst asunder the chains and fetters with which he was bound; they address Christ as the "Son of the most high God;" they beseech him to suffer them to enter into the swine; and when he had given them leave, they "went out and entered into the swine," etc.

with.

8; 1:23,26; 3:30; 7:25; Lu 9:42

9:18-22; Isa 65:4; Da 4:32,33; Lu 8:29

tame.

Jas 3:7,8

crying.

1Ki 18:28; Job 2:7,8; Joh 8:44

Luke 8:27

met.

Mr 5:2-5

and ware.

1Sa 19:24

but.

Nu 19:16; Isa 65:4
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