What have I to do with thee i.e. Why should'st thou interfere with me? 2 Samuel 16:10; 2 Samuel 19:22. See Luke 4:24. Baur refers to obvious imitations of this narrative in the story of the Lamia expelled by Apollonius of Tyana (Philostr. Luke 4:25).

Son of God most high 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.

torment me not "The demons...believe and tremble," James 2:19. On this conception of torment see Mark 1:24; Matthew 18:34.

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