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29. παρήγγελλεν. ‘He commanded.’
πολλοῖς χρόνοις usually means ‘for a long time.’ Comp. Plut. Thess. VI. πολλοῖς χρόνοις ὕστερον, ‘long afterwards.’
Φυλασσόμενος. ‘Being kept under guard.’ The A. V[180] misses this curious point in the narrative, preserved by St Luke only,—namely, that ‘he was bound in manacles and fetters, being under guard.’ The omission is corrected in the R. V[181], comp. Luk 4:10.
[180] A. V. Authorised Version.
[181] R. V. Revised Version.
ὑπὸ τοῦ δαιμονίου. The other reading δαίμονος (of A and other MSS.) is very remarkable, for it is the only place in the Gospel in which δαίμων occurs, and δαίμονες only in the parallel places (Mat 8:31; Mar 5:12). On the other δαιμόνιον occurs 45 times, and πνεῦμα 27 times.
εἰς τὰς ἐρήμους. ‘Into the deserts,’—regarded as a peculiar haunt of Azazel and other demons. Mat 12:43; Tob 8:3; see on Luk 4:1. (There are obvious allusions to the Gospel narrative of this demoniac and the demoniac boy in Lucian, Philopseudes, 16.)