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Mat 12:44. Οἶκόν μου, my house) What the enemy had once occupied, he considers as a portion of his property.-ἐξῆλθον, I came out) He speaks as if he had not been cast forth See the pride of the unclean spirit, which shows itself not merely in this word, but from his whole speech, as though it had been at his option either to come out or to return. Our Lord uses the same word without any particular emphasis in Mat 12:43. The same word may either have emphasis, or be without emphasis, in different speeches, according to the different condition and mind of the speaker.-ἑλθὸν, when he is come) for the sake of reconnoitering.-εὑρίσκει, κ.τ.λ., he finds, etc.) Therefore, the house was not so before the enemy had been cast forth.-σχολάζοντα, vacant) Tranquillity, although in itself good, is not far distant from peril. The same verb σκολάζειν occurs in the S. V. of Exo 5:8; Exo 5:17, for רפה, to be idle.-σεσαρωμένον, swept) i.e., cleared from evils.-κεκοσμημένον, adorned) sc. with good things; see Mat 12:28. The enemy seeks especially clean places to rest in, not that they may remain clean, but that he may render them also unclean.