Mateo 8 (Spanish RV 1909) - Bible Truth Library

Gergesenes.Some are of opinion that Gergasa was the country of the ancient Girgashites; but it is more probable the Gergesenes was introduced by Origen upon mere conjecture; as before him most copies seem to have read Gadarenes, agreeable to the Parallel Passages and the ancient Syriac version.

Gadara, says Josephus, was the metropolis of Peraea, or the region beyond Jordan; and he also observes that it was sixty furlongs, or about eight miles from Tiberias.

It is therefore rightly placed opposite Tiberias, at the southeast end of the lake.

Pliny says it was called Hippodion, was one of the cities of Decapolis, and had the river Hieromax, or Jarmouk, flowing before it.

It was of heathen jurisdiction; whence perhaps it was destroyed by the Jews; but was rebuilt by Pompey, and joined to the province of Syria.

Augustus afterwards gave it to Herod, on whose death it was again annexed to Syria.

It is now called Om Keis; its ruins are in a very mutilated state, and when visited by Burckhardt it had not a single inhabitant.

The remains of the sepulchral caverns in which the demoniacs abode are still to be seen.

Gn. 10:16• ¹⁶Y al Jebuseo, y al Amorrheo, y al Gergeseo, (Gn. 10:16)

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Gn. 15:21• ²¹Y los Amorrheos, y los Cananeos, y los Gergeseos, y los Jebuseos. (Gn. 15:21)

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Dt. 7:1• ¹Cuando Jehová tu Dios te hubiere introducido en la tierra en la cual tú has de entrar para poseerla, y hubiere echado de delante de ti muchas gentes, al Hetheo, al Gergeseo, y al Amorrheo, y al Cananeo, y al Pherezeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo, siete naciones mayores y más fuertes que tú; (Dt. 7:1)

coming.

Mr. 5:2‑5• ²Y salido él del barco, luego le salió al encuentro, de los sepulcros, un hombre con un espíritu inmundo,
³Que tenía domicilio en los sepulcros, y ni aun con cadenas le podía alguien atar;
⁴Porque muchas veces había sido atado con grillos y cadenas, mas las cadenas habían sido hechas pedazos por él, y los grillos desmenuzados; y nadie le podía domar.
⁵Y siempre, de día y de noche, andaba dando voces en los montes y en los sepulcros, é hiriéndose con las piedras. (Mr. 5:2‑5)

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Lc. 8:27,29• ²⁷Y saliendo él á tierra, le vino al encuentro de la ciudad un hombre que tenía demonios ya de mucho tiempo; y no vestía vestido, ni estaba en casa, sino por los sepulcros.
²⁹(Porque mandaba al espíritu inmundo que saliese del hombre: porque ya de mucho tiempo le arrebataba; y le guardaban preso con cadenas y grillos; mas rompiendo las prisiones, era agitado del demonio por los desiertos.) (Lc. 8:27,29)

so.

Jue. 5:6• ⁶En los días de Samgar hijo de Anath, En los días de Jael, cesaron los caminos, Y los que andaban por las sendas apartábanse por torcidos senderos. (Jue. 5:6)

• The power of Satan was stronger than all the fetters of men. (“Remarks on Matthew 8” by W. Kelly)

• I doubt not that our Evangelist gives the casting out of the demons as a witness of Christ's power to deliver the Jewish remnant; and therefore the Holy Ghost, here only, names the two men; as, on the other hand, the possessed herd of swine seems to represent the destruction of the unclean mass of Israel in the latter day. (“Remarks on Matthew 8” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenesd, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

JND Translation Notes

Some read "Gadarenes," others "Gerasenes."

W. Kelly Translation

And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demonsa, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way

WK Translation Notes

"Demons" and "demoniacs" (8:28, 31) must always be distinguished from "devils." The word "devil" is a different term which scripture gives to their chief.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)