[5] Rabbinical and other passages, ap. Winer, ut sup. s. 192. [↑]
[6] Exeg. Handb. 1, b, s. 475; comp. Hase, L. J. s. 60. [↑]
[8] Grätz, Comm. z. Matth. 1, s. 615. [↑]
[9] B. Comm. 1, s. 424. According to this, the passage relates to the Jewish people, who before the exile were possessed by the devil in the form of idolatry, and afterwards in the worst form of Pharisaism. [↑]
[10] Thus Fritzsche, in Matt., p. 447. [↑]
[11] Exeg. Handb. 2, s. 566. [↑]
[12] Ut sup. 1, b, s. 483; 2, s. 96. [↑]
[13] Hence the words δαιμονᾷν, κακοδαιμονᾷν were used as synonymous with μελανχολᾷν μαίνεσθαι. Hippocrates had to combat the opinion that epilepsy was the effect of demoniacal influence. Vid. Wetstein, s. 282 ff. [↑]
[14] Let the reader compare the רוּחַ רָעָה מֵאֵת יְהוָֹה, which made Saul melancholy, [1 Sam. xvi. 14]. Its influence on Saul is expressed by בִּעֲתַתּוּ. [↑]