* when.
Mr 5:1-20 Lu 8:26-39 Ac 10:38
* 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.
Ge 10:16 15:21 De 7:1
* coming.
Mr 5:2-5 Lu 8:27,29
* so.
Jud 5:6
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