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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 5:9 - 5:9
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And he asked him, What is thy name? - The object of this question was to extort an acknowledgment of the virulence of demoniacal power by which this victim was enthralled.
And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many - or, as in Luke (Luk 8:30) “because many devils [demons] were entered into him.” A legion, in the Roman army, amounted, at its full complement, to six thousand; but here the word is used, as such words with us, and even this one, for an indefinitely large number - large enough however to rush, as soon as permission was given, into two thousand swine and destroy them.