Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Mark 9:18
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18. And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him; and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away —rather, "becomes withered," "dried up," or "paralyzed"; as the same word is everywhere else rendered in the New Testament. Some additional particulars are given by Luke, and by our Evangelist below. "Lo," says he in Luke 9:39 , "a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly [or with difficulty] departeth from him." and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not —Our Lord replies to the father by a severe rebuke to the disciples. As if wounded at the exposure before such a multitude, of the weakness of His disciples' faith, which doubtless He felt as a reflection on Himself, He puts them to the blush before all, but in language fitted only to raise expectation of what He Himself would do. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-19" class="com-number"
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