Mark 1:25

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Ver. 25,26. It is both here and in many other places observable, that when the devils made a confession of Christ, yet neither Christ nor his apostles would ever take any notice of it. Truth is never advantaged from the confession of known liars, as the devil was from the beginning. Christ needed not the devil's testimony, either to his holiness, or his being the Son of God, nor would he have people allow the least faith to the devil's words. Nor was he to be imposed upon by the devil's good words; he was to make no truce with him, but to destroy him and his works, he therefore charges him to hold his peace, and to come out. And when the unclean spirit had torn him. The Greek word here, oparaxan, is ill translated torn, as appears by Luke 4:35, where it is said it did him no hurt: the word signifies no more than a violent convulsion, or shaking; and it is observed that those possessed by devils had only their members made use of by the devils, but without any wounding or laceration of them. He cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him. Oh how loth is the devil to part with his possession! But possibly also Christ would have him cry out with a loud voice, that his miraculous operation might be the more taken notice of.