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Mat 8:34.[387] Παρεκάλεσαν, they besought) Those who are held fast by concern about their property, more easily and readily repel than pursue. Even avarice is timid. Or perhaps they besought our Lord with no evil feeling.[388] See Luk 5:8.[389]
[387] Πᾶσα ἡ πόλις, the whole city) Such great commotion do earthly interests cause!-V. g.
[388] At all events, though the Gergesenes besought Him with such a request, as did also their neighbours the Gadarenes, yet He left behind a leading one of those who had been possessed (Luk 8:35, viz. the man whom the men of the city had found “sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind”) as a preacher of the Gospel to them. This one may have been a Gadarene, and the other a Gergesene.-Harm. p. 274.
[389] Where Peter, from humility instead of malignity, exclaims, “DEPART FROM ME, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”-(I. B.)