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When asked his name what did the demoniac answer?
“My name is Legion” ([Mark v, 9]).
Concerning this the Rev. Dr. Giles says: “The Four Gospels are written in Greek, and the word ‘legion’ is Latin; but in Galilee and Perea the people spoke neither Latin nor Greek, but Hebrew, or a dialect of it. The word ‘legion’ would be perfectly unintelligible to the disciples of Christ, and to almost everybody in the country” (Christian Records, p. 197).
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How many swine were there?
Mark: “They were about two thousand” ([v, 13]).
If each hog received a devil there must have been two thousand devils. Legion must have been a very large man, or they were very little devils.