{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060208.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060208.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060208.htm","text":"Chapter II.\u2014Of the Man Out of Whom the Unclean Spirit that Was Tormenting Him Was Cast, and of the Question Whether Mark\u2019s Version is Quite Consistent with that of Luke, Who is at One with Him in Reporting the Incident.\n3. Mark proceeds with his narrative in the following terms: \u201cAnd they were astonished at His doctrine: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit: and he cried out, saying, 1589 What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us?\u201d and so on, down to the passage where we read, \u201cAnd He preached in the synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.\u201d 1590 Although there are some points here which are common only to Mark and Luke, the entire contents of this section have also been already dealt with when we were going over Matthew\u2019s narrative in its continuity. For all these matters came into the order of narration in such a manner that I thought they could not be passed over. But Luke says that this unclean spirit went out of the man in such a way as not to hurt him: whereas Mark\u2019s statement is to this effect: \u201cAnd the unclean spirit cometh out of him, tearing him, and crying with a loud voice.\u201d There may seem, therefore, to be some discrepancy here. For how could the unclean spirit have been \u201ctearing him,\u201d or, as some codices have it, \u201ctormenting him,\u201d if, as Luke says, he \u201churt him not\u201d? Luke, however, gives the notice in full, thus: \u201cAnd when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and \u201churt him not.\u201d 1591 Thus we are to understand that when Mark says, \u201ctormenting him,\u201d he just refers to what Luke expresses in the sentence, \u201cWhen he had thrown him in the midst.\u201d And when the latter appends the words, \u201cand hurt him not,\u201d the meaning simply is, that the said tossing of the man\u2019s limbs and tormenting him did not debilitate him, as is often the case with the exit of devils, when, at times, some of p. 226 the members are even destroyed 1592 in the process of removing the trouble.\nThe words Let us alone, are omitted. [So the Greek text, according to the best mss.\u2014R.]\n225:1590 225:1591 226:1592\nReading elisis. Various mss. give amputatis aut evulsis = amputated or torn off.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}