Bible Commentaries
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 8
Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter.
Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony.
No man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Matthew 5:15 ; Mark 4:21 ; Luke 11:33 .
For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Matthew 10:26 ; Mark 4:22 ; Luke 12:2 .
The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Matthew 13:12 ; Mark 4:25 ; Luke 19:26 .
For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out.
To enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd.
She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.
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