Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - Matthew 8:29 - 8:29
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat 8:29. Τί ἡμῖν καὶ σοὶ, what have we to do with Thee?) A formula of declining interference or intercourse. See S. V. 1Ki 17:18; Jdg 11:12; 2Ki 3:13. They confess in this address their despair and horrible expectation, and at the same time they seem to add, “we desire to have dealings, not with Thee, but with men liable to sin.”-Υἱὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ, Son of God) Men seeking aid addressed Him with confidence as the Son of David; devils with terror, as the Son of God.-ὧδε, hither) The devils claimed, as it were, some right in that place, and especially over the swine in that place.-πρὸ καιροῦ, before the time) This may be construed either with ἦλθες, hast Thou come, or with βασανίσαι, to torment, or with both. Jesus came indeed when the world was ripe for His coming, and yet sooner than the enemy desired. Thus in Rom 5:6, we read Χριστὸς-κατὰ-καιρὸν-ἀπέθανε, IN DUE TIME Christ died.-βασανίσαι, to torment) It is torment for the devils to be without the bodies of man or beast, which they ardently desire to possess, that they may thereby, for the time being, extinguish that fire with which they are always burning. See Mat 8:31. This was a prelude to their being hereafter placed in subjection under the feet of Jesus.