Luke 8 · John Wesley
Thy faith hath saved thee - Not thy love. Love is salvation.
Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter.
Who - keep it - Not like the highway side: And bring forth fruit - Not like the thorny ground: With perseverance - Not like the stony.
No man having lighted a candle - As if ho had said, And let your good fruit appear openly. Mt 5:15; Mr 4:21; Lu 11:33.
For nothing is hid - Strive not to conceal it at all; for you can conceal nothing long. Mt 10:26; Mr 4:22; Lu 12:2.
The word commonly translated seemeth, wherever it occurs, does not weaken, but greatly strengthens the sense. Mt 13:12; Mr 4:25; Lu 19:26.
For many times it had caught him - Therefore our compassionate Lord made the more haste to cast him out.
The abyss - That is, the bottomless pit.
To enter into the swine - Not that they were any easier in the swine than out of them. Had it been so, they would not so soon have dislodged themselves, by destroying the herd.
She is not dead but sleepeth - Her soul is not separated finally from the body; and this short separation is rather to be called sleep than death.