Luke 8:30-33
Legion <3003> [Legion.]
many <4183> [many.]
they began to beg <3870> [they.]
abyss <12> [the deep.]
"The abyss," says Dr. Doddridge, "the prison in which many of these fallen spirits are detained; and to which some, who may, like these, have been permitted for a while to range at large, are sometimes by Divine justice and power remanded."
herd ...... there <1563 34> [there an.]
begged <3870> [besought.]
let ...... He gave ... permission <2010> [he suffered.]
So <1161> [Then.]
By this was fully evinced the sovereign power of our Lord, and the reality of diabolical agency; "for," says Dr. Doddridge, "it was self-evident that a herd of swine could not be confederates in any fraud; their death, therefore, in this instructive circumstance, was ten thousand times a greater blessing to mankind than if they had been slain for food, as was intended."
herd <34> [the herd.]
