What have we to do with thee? (τ ημιν κα σοι?) The same idiom in Mt 8:29. Ethical dative. Nothing in common between the demon and …

Let us alone. Though only one impure spirit is mentioned as po e ing this man, yet that spirit speaks also in the name of others. They wer…

What have we to do with thee?—The cry is identical with that of the Gadarene demoniacs (Matthew 8:29). Here, …

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, Let us alone;

How often that is still the …

The Venerable Bede: Since death first entered the world through the envy of the devil, it was right that the medicine of healin…

Although v.23 states that the man cried out, it was really the demon who had the man under his control who shouted. The “us” in his question shows …

Saying, let us alone, &
c.] Meaning with himself, the rest of the unclean spirits, that had possessed the bodies of …

The devil is an unclean spirit because he has lost all the purity of his nature, because he acts in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit of God, an…