And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
Christ ordered His disciples to sea that He might display His glory upon the water and work kindness for a possessed man on the far shore. They that have Christ accompanying them may safely venture anywhere; but even at His word, in a calm, they must prepare for storm and utmost peril. The devil, prince of the power of the air, perhaps suspected Christ's purpose to cast out that legion and poured tempest upon the ship to prevent it.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 8:22-39
And there was there an herd of many swine,.... About two thousand, Mar 5:13, Feeding on the mountain; See Gill on Mar 5:11. And they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them; which they could not do, without his leave: and he suffered them: See Gill on Mar 5:12, Mar 5:13
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep - In the Chaldaic philosophy, mention is made of certain material demons, who are permitted to wander about on the earth, and are horribly afraid of being sent into abysses and subterranean places.