Verse 43
43. When the unclean spirit Our Lord draws a picture of the present apostate generation, (including the blaspheming Pharisees,) from the demoniac whom he had dispossessed before the commencement of this discourse, and whose case had given rise to it, (Matthew 12:22.) That generation had melted, and been transiently converted, under the preaching of John.
They were precisely like the man he had just dispossessed. But how had the devil again possessed them! Dry places Waterless, and therefore uninhabited deserts. Walketh through dry places The demon, driven by divine power from the hearts of men, is pictured by our Lord as not going to hell directly, but as lingering in the unpeopled regions of the dry desert. Seeking rest, and findeth none Because he pants for a residence in a human being.
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