A26981:380
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and…A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and…
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
30. And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding: 31. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
30, 31. And (many Gentiles dwelling there who kept Swine, and perhaps some Jews, to sell, tho they eat not Swines flesh) there was a great herd of Swine; and the Devils being a base sort of Spirits, and bent to all mischief, craved leave, if they must be cast out, to go into the Swine, partly to mischief them, and partly to discontent their owners.
32. And he said to them, Go; And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
32. That is, They were mad, and in madness ran into the sea and were drowned.