And when he went forth to land,.... The Persic and Ethiopic versions read,when they went forth to land; when Christ and his disciples came out of the ship, and went ashore:there met him out of the city a certain man; or rather, there met him a certain man of the city; that is, one that belonged to, and was an inhabitant of Gadera, or some city thereabout; who had been born and brought up, and had lived there; for certain it is, that he did not now come out of the city, but out of the tombs, as in Mt 8:28 and to which agrees the account of him that follows here; in the Vulgate Latin version, these words, "out of the city" are omitted; which the interpreter not understanding, might leave out, as carrying in it a seeming contradiction to the accounts of him:which had devils long time.
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Luke 8:27
Luke 8:27
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