And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
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.
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Commenting on Luke 8:22-39
And they besought him,.... That is, all the devils, the whole legion of them, entreated Jesus, under whose power, and at whose dispose they were: that he would not command them to go out into the deep; meaning, not the deep waters of the sea, for thither they ran the swine at their own request; but the bottomless pit of hell, where others of these...