Hold thy peace (φιμωθητ). First aorist passive imperative of φιμοω. "Be quiet," Moffatt translates it. But it is a more vigorous w…

And Jesus rebuked him. He chided him, or commanded him with a threat, to be still. This was not the man he rebuked, but the s…

Hold your peace.—Literally, be still, be gagged. The same verb is used in the calming of the winds and w…

What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus reb…

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

Jesus needed no magical formulas to exorcise the demon. He addressed it directly and ordered it, “Be quiet!” With this word of power the evil spiri…

And Jesus rebuked him
Checking his insolence, despising his flattery, and refusing to receive a testimony from him; …

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…