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Luke 11:14

The Pulpit Commentary on Luke 11:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. Some very terrible and apparently helpless form of possession which manifested itself in a mute, possibly in a motionless, melancholy insanity. And the people wondered.

Not improbably the professional exorcists had tried here and signally failed; hence the special wonder of the people.

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