The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

present instance the immediate effect was
homage,*^ which tiiss presently manifested itself
in language such as might have been expected.
Here also it must be remembered, that both the act
of homage, or ' worship,' and the words spoken,
were not the outcome either of the demonised only,
nor yet of the demons only, but a combination of
the two: the control of the demons being absolute
over the man such as he was. Their language led to
his worship; iJieir feelings and fears appeared in
his language. It was the self-confession of the
demons^ when obliged to come into His Presence
and do homage, which made the man fall down
and, in the well-known Jewish formula, recorded
by the three Evangelists, say : * What have I to do
with Thee,' or rather, ' What between me and
Thee'—what have we in common (Mah li valakh)
? Similarly, although it was consciousness of
subjection and fear in His Presence, on the part of
the demons, which underlay the adjuration not to
inflict torment on them, yet the language itself, as
the text shows, was that of the