Psa 51:15, Isa 32:4, Mat 9:32-33, 12:22, 15:30, Mar 7:32-37, 9:17-25 | TSK | STEP

put.This was clearly a symbolical action; for these remedies evidently could not, by their natural efficacy, avail to produce so wonderful an effect. As the ears of the deaf appear closed, he applies his fingers to intimate that he would open them; and as the tongue of the dumb seems to be tied, or to cleave to the palate, he touches it, to intimate he would give loose and free motion to it. He accommodated himself to the weakness of those who might not indeed doubt his power, but fancy some external sign was requisite to healing. It was also thus made manifest, that this salutiferous power came from Himself, and that He who by one word, [ephphatha ,] had healed the man, must be Divine.

looking.

6:41; Joh 11:41; 17:1

he sighed.

8:12; Isa 53:3; Eze 21:6,7; Lu 19:41; Joh 11:33,35,38; Heb 4:15

Ephphatha.

5:41; 15:34

Be opened.

1:41; Lu 7:14; 18:42; Joh 11:43; Ac 9:34,40

2:12; Ps 33:9; Isa 32:3,4; 35:5,6; Mt 11:5

1:44,45; 3:12; 5:43; 8:26

were.

1:27; 2:12; 4:41; 5:42; 6:51; Ps 139:14; Ac 2:7-12; 3:10-13; 14:11

He hath.

Ge 1:31; Lu 23:41

he maketh.

Ex 4:10,11

Mark 9:17-25

5:23; 7:26; 10:13; Mt 17:15; Lu 9:38; Joh 4:47

a dumb.

25; Mt 12:22; Lu 11:14

teareth him. or, dasheth him.

26; Mt 15:22; Lu 9:39

he 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 1:13

gnasheth.

Job 16:9; Ps 112:10; Mt 8:12; Ac 7:54

and 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; 106:21-25

Mt 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 8:44

1Pe 5:8

How.

5:25; Job 5:7; 14:1; Ps 51:5; Lu 8:43; 13:16; Joh 5:5,6; 9:1,20,21

Ac 3:2; 4:22; 9:33; 14:8

if.

1:40-42; Mt 8:2,8,9; 9:28; 14:31

have.

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; 11:40

Ac 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 10:19,31

2Co 2:4; 2Ti 1:4; Heb 5:7; 12:17

help.

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 1:9

thou.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 11:14

I charge.

Lu 8:29; Ac 16:18