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Mat 8:28. Γεργεσηνῶν,[384] of the Gergesenes) Gerasa (said for Gergescha) and Gadara were neighbouring cities.[385] See Hiller’s Onomata Sacra, pp. 807, 812.-ἐκ τῶν μνημείων, from the tombs) The possessed avoid human society, in which the exercises of piety flourish. Invisible guests also have their dwelling in sepulchres (See Mar 5:3); those which are malignant, especially, I believe in the sepulchres of the impious.-παρελθεῖν, pass by) not even pass by.
[384] This reading, which Michaelis supposed to rest on the mere conjecture of Origen, is estimated by the Margin of Beng. more highly in this passage than in the parallels, Mar 5:1, and Luk 8:26.-E. B.
[385] See Bloomfield’s Greek Testament in loc.-(I. B.)
BCΔ, Syr. (Peschito) and Harcl. (txt.) Syr. read Γαδαρηνῶν. Lachm. reads Γερασηνῶν with bcd Vulg. Hilar. 645, and D apparently (its Latin having this reading). Γεργεσηνῶν has but second-rate authorities, LX. etc. Memph. Goth. The variety probably arose from the parallel passages being altered from one another. Tregelles (Printed Text of N. T. p. 192) has shown Origen, iv. 140, Γαδαρηνῶν, does not refer to Matthew exclusively, but to the Gospel narration generally. It proves the name was sometimes read Γαδαρηνοὶ, sometimes Γερασηνοὶ, and that Γεργεσηνοὶ was not a then known reading, but was his mere conjecture.-ED.