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Mark 1:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

driveth: Or, "sendeth him forth," εκβαλλει: strong:G1544, αυτον:. The expression does not necessarily imply any violence; but seems to intimate the energy of that impulse on our Lord, by which he was inwardly constrained to retire from society.

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