. Notes, explanatory and practical, on the Gospels: designed for Sunday school teachers and Bible classes . s correct. ^ Possessed withdevils. See Note, Matt. iv. 24. IT Com- ing out of the tombs. Mark and Lukesay that they dwelt in the tombs. Thesepulchres of the Jews were commonlycaves, beyond the walls of the cities inwhich they dwelt, or excavations madein the sides of hills, or sometimes insoHd rocks. These caves, or excava-tions, were sometimes of great descended to them by flights ofsteps. These graves were not in themidst of cities, but in groves, andmountains, and solitude
. Notes, explanatory and practical, on the Gospels: designed for Sunday school teachers and Bible classes . s correct. ^ Possessed withdevils. See Note, Matt. iv. 24. IT Com- ing out of the tombs. Mark and Lukesay that they dwelt in the tombs. Thesepulchres of the Jews were commonlycaves, beyond the walls of the cities inwhich they dwelt, or excavations madein the sides of hills, or sometimes insoHd rocks. These caves, or excava-tions, were sometimes of great descended to them by flights ofsteps. These graves were not in themidst of cities, but in groves, andmountains, and solitudes. They af-forded, therefore, to insane persons anddemoniacs retreat and shelter. Theydelighted in these gloomy and melan-choly recesses, as being congenial tothe wretched state of their minds. Jo-sephus, also, states that these sepul-chres were the haunts and lurkingplaces of those desperate bands of rob-bers that infested Judea. The annex-ed cut will furnish an illustration of thenature of the sepulchres occurring inthe east. A more full illustration maybe seen by referring to my Notes onIsa. Ixv. 29. What have we to do with thee ?This might have been translated withgreat propriety. What hast thou to dowith us ? The mearung is, Why dostthou trouble, or disturb us? See 2Sam. xvi. 10. 2 Kings ix. 18. Ezraiv. 3. IT Son of God. The title. Sonof God, is often given to Christ. Menare sometimes called sons, or childrenof God, to denote their piety and adop- tion into his family. 1 John iii. L Butthe title given to Christ denotes his su-periority to the prophets (Heb. i. 1.);to Moses, the founder of the Jewisheconomy (Heb. iii. 6); it denotes hispeculiar and near relation to the Father,as evinced by his resurrection (Ps. ii. xiii. 33); it denotes his peculiarrelation to God from his miraculous con-ception (Luke i. 35); and is equivalent A. ] CHAPTER VIII. 109 saying, What have we to do withthee, Jesus, thou Son of God ? artthou come hither to torment usbefore the time
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