31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.



Ver. 31. To go out into the deep] i.e. Hell, that bottomless deep, Rev_20:3; 2Pe_2:4, where they could do no more hurt: which would be another hell unto them. Augustus, consulting Apollo’s oracle, was told, that a Hebrew child had stopped his mouth, and sent him with a mittimus {a} to hell, &c. (Pucer de Orac.)



{a} A warrant under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, ordering him to receive into custody and hold in safe-keeping, until delivered in due course of law, the person sent and specified in the warrant. ŒD