"And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,.... We rightly supply, "the spirit", as do the Syriac and Persic versions, "the demon"; for it was he, and not the child,
that cried, and made an hideous noise, at his ejection; being filled with wrath and rage, that he must be obliged to quit the possession he had so long held; and therefore, in spite and malice, before it left him, shook and tore him, and threw him into dreadful convulsions: and came out of him; though sore against his will, being obliged to it, by the superior power of Christ: and he was as one dead: that is, the child, when the devil had left him, lay as still as if he had no breath, nor life in him: insomuch that many said, he is dead; really dead: that there was no life in him, nor any hopes of his coming to himself again.
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore,.... We rightly supply, "the spirit", as do the Syriac and Persic versions, "the demon"; for it was he, and not the child,
that cried, and made an hideous noise, at his ejection; being filled with wrath and rage, that he must be obliged to quit the possession he had so long held; and therefore, in spite and malice, before it left him, shook and tore him, and threw him into dreadful convulsions: and came out of him; though sore against his will, being obliged to it, by the superior power of Christ: and he was as one dead: that is, the child, when the devil had left him, lay as still as if he had no breath, nor life in him: insomuch that many said, he is dead; really dead: that there was no life in him, nor any hopes of his coming to himself again.