To prove beyond doubt the genuineness of these relics, a blind man was restored to sight by coming in contact with them, anddemoniacs were also cured thereby.
They represent demoniacs as having a supernatural acquaintance with Jesus, which, it now becomes manifest, they cannot have had.
Such is a specimen of the flood of difficulties which poured in, through the great breach which the demoniacs had made in the credit of Biblical marvels.
The devils cast out of two demoniacs (or one) are said to have entered into a herd of swine.
Old Testament, and the fact that so-called demoniacswere cured by exorcists; 2.
At the suggestion of the latter, the wild utterances of the demoniacs were written down, and a mass accumulated of some six hundred pages, for it was a current belief that demons were often compelled by God to utter truths concealed from man.
This is in peculiar contrast with John, where we find no cure of demoniacs recorded.
Among the miracles recorded in Mark, the cures of demoniacsare prominent.
It was not 'good' to stay there, and leave demoniacs uncured in the plain.
The calm which was breathed over the stormy lake is peace of a lower kind than that which filled the soul of the demoniacs when the power that made discord within had been cast out.
On the other hand, several of the Demoniacs were men of intelligence.
It has hitherto been assumed that “Don Pringello” was the playful form given by the Demoniacs to one Pringle.
The devil is then appeased by giving the demoniacs a few sous; but the better to restrain them, fifty archers of the watch are placed in the church with fixed bayonets.
It was not the demons, but the Gadarene demoniacs themselves, who rushed among the swine.
The cures of demoniacs are not even represented among them.
How do the demoniacs know that Jesus is the Son of God?
To the cures of demoniacs he added magical acts such as the feeding of the multitude and the resurrection.
How far the cries of the demoniacs who addressed Him as Messiah were intelligible by the people must remain an open question.
Why does the re-moulder of the history, instead of doing that, have recourse to a supernatural knowledge on the part of the demoniacs and the disciples?
If these demoniacs had lived in our days, he remarks, they would probably have each cost the lives of numerous old women.
People who fancy themselves bewitched are really possessed or assaulted by the devil, as were Job and the demoniacs of the New Testament.
Trench anticipates the natural question, why there are no demoniacs now, if there were so many in those days,(2) and he is logically compelled to maintain that there may still be persons possessed.
He considers that demoniacs are possessed and tortured by the souls of the wicked dead,(2) and he represents evil spirits as watching to seize the soul at death.
The instance here under consideration is parallel to that of the demoniacs of Gadara, and the blind men at Jericho; where, in both cases, Matthew speaks of two persons, while Mark and Luke mention only one.
The demoniacs met Jesus on the shore, as he came out of the ship.
Such was the treatment of demoniacs developed by theology, and such the practice enforced by ecclesiasticism for more than a thousand years.
No doubt the demoniacs were simply insane; but in that case Jesus himself was mistaken, or the evangelists put into his mouth words that he never used.
Further, the existence of the many demoniacs spoken of in the New Testament proves that Satan can dwell in man and use the human body as his implement.
At marriages among them, a terrible apparition appears of two demoniacs possessed by Bagheswar, the tiger god.
In the last chapter we saw two shadows agreeing to form an alliance in deceit; the Devil appearing as the friend of Loyola, devotees and demoniacs marching abreast, Hell touched to softness in the Sacred Heart.
Demoniacs were not so scarce, but that one was easily found and brought forward at the first summons.
One or two remarks will be all that is necessary for illustrating the position which some have adopted that our Lord's mode of dealing with demoniacs was intended by Him as part of the process of cure.
But the case is different when our Lord speaks to others, and not to the demoniacs themselves.
Now, on the supposition that thesedemoniacs were simple maniacs, how does this affect the credibility of the narrative?
If demoniacs were madmen, our Lord was fully justified in displaying towards them the highest degree of sympathy, and in bringing to bear on them the mighty moral and spiritual forces which abode in his lofty personality.
In the Acts of the Apostles only two cases of possession are mentioned, one that of the damsel at Philippi, and the other the occasion when certain Jewish exorcists undertook to exorcise demoniacs at Ephesus in the name of Jesus.
We have no fumigations of demoniacs with the liver of a fish, we hear nothing of a demon drawn out of a man's nose, and overturning a basin of water, nothing of a demon inhabiting every private closet.
Not only are several miracles of this description definitely recorded, but the Evangelists several times affirm that our Lord cured demoniacsin considerable numbers, without furnishing us with the details.
Matthew again abbreviates, omitting many of the most striking and solemn features of the narrative as given by the other two evangelists, and he also diverges from them in mentioning two demoniacs instead of one.
No doubt, keeping swine was a breach of Jewish law; no doubt the two demoniacs and the bystanders would be more convinced of the reality of the exorcism by the fate of the swine, but these apologies are needless.
The sorcerers, ecstatics, and demoniacs were not regularly organized into a caste.
The demoniacs were usually in collusion with the priests, willy-nilly.
The fearful suffering which demoniacs have to undergo and the still more harassing conflicts in their soul drive them frequently to despair and engender thoughts of suicide.
Demoniacs also exhibit the traces of injuries inflicted by demons, as saints show the stigmas, and their wounds heal as little as those of stigmatized persons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demoniacs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
