τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί. I.e. ‘Why should’st thou interfere with me?’ 2 Samuel 16:10; 2 Samuel 19:22. See Luke 4:24. Bauer refers to obvious imitations of this narrative in the story of the Lamia expelled by Apollonius of Tyana (Philostr. IV. 25).

τοῦ ὑψίστου. Probably the epithet was customary in exorcisms or attempted exorcisms, and hence we find it used by another demoniac (Acts 16:17). Jesus is not so called elsewhere, except in Luke 1:32.

μή με βασανίσῃς. ‘The demons … believe and tremble,’ James 2:19. On this conception of torment see Mark 1:24; Matthew 18:34.

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