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A steep place (τοῦ κρημνοῦ)
Much better the steep (Rev.). Not an overhanging precipice, but a steep, almost perpendicular declivity, between the base of which and the water was a narrow margin of ground, in which there was not room for the swine to recover from their headlong rush. Dr. Thomson (“Land and Book”) says: “Farther south the plain becomes so broad that the herd might have recovered and recoiled from the lake.” The article localizes the steep as in the vicinity of the pasture.