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Mar_1:23 f. Ἐν πνεύμ . ἀκαθάρτῳ ] to be connected closely with ἄνθρωπος : a man in the power of an unclean spirit. See on ἐν Matthiae, p. 1141. Comp. Mar_5:2; 2Co_12:2; Buttmann, neut. Gr. p. 84 [E. T. 96]. As to the demoniacs, see on Mat_4:24; and as to the miracles of Jesus in general, see on Mat_8:4.
ἀνέκραξε ] he cried aloud (see Winer, de verbor. cum praepos. compos. usu, III. p. 7), namely, the man, who, however, speaks in the person of the demon. Comp. Mat_8:29, where also, as here, the demon immediately discerns the Messiah.
ἡμᾶς ] me and those like to me. “Communem inter se causam habent daemonia,” Bengel.
ἀπολέσαι ] by relegation to Hades, like βασανίσαι in Matt. l.c.
ὁ ἅγιος τοῦ θεοῦ ] the hallowed One of God (Joh_10:36) κατʼ ἐξοχήν (see Origen and Victor Antiochenus in Possini Catena), a characteristic designation of the Messiah, which here proceeds from the consciousness of the unholy demoniac nature (Luk_4:34; Act_4:27; Rev_3:7; Joh_6:69). In a lower sense priests and prophets were ἅγιοι τοῦ θεοῦ . See Knapp, Opusc. I. p. 33 f. The demon does not name Him thus as κολακεύων αὐτόν (Euthymius Zigabenus, and before him Tertullian), but rather by way of giving to His ἦλθες ἀπολέσαι ἡμᾶς the impress of hopeless certainty.