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26. ἕτερα πνεύματα … ἑπτά. Compare Luk 8:2; Luk 8:30. The number is figurative of complete wickedness and (in this case) final possession.
τὰ ἔσχατα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκείνου χείρονα τῶν πρώτων. The most striking comment on the verse is furnished by Heb 6:4-6; Heb 10:26-29, and especially 2Pe 2:20-21. “Sin no more,” said our Lord to the Impotent Man, “lest a worse thing come unto thee,” Joh 5:14. The Parable was an allegory, not only of the awful peril of relapse after partial conversion, but also of the History of the Jews. The demon of idolatry had been expelled by the Exile; “but had returned in the sevenfold virulence of letter-worship, formalism, exclusiveness, ambition, greed, hypocrisy and hate;” and on the testimony of Josephus himself the Jews of that age were so bad that their destruction seemed an inevitable retribution.