Mat_17:18.
Ἐπετίμ
.
αὐτῷ
] He rebuked him, namely, the demon (Fritzsche, Ewald), reproached him for having taken possession of the boy. Comp. Mat_8:26. For this prolepsis in the reference of
αὐτός
(which Vulgate, Theophylact, de Wette, Winer, Bleek, refer to the lunatic), see Fritzsche, Conject. p. 11 f.; Bornemann, ad Xen. Symp. viii. 34.