Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.
We have here the miraculous cure of a child that was lunatic and vexed with a devil. Observe, I. A melancholy representation of the case of this child, made to Christ by the afflicted father. This was immediately upon his coming down from the mountain where he was transfigured. Note, Christ's glories do not make him unmindful of us and of our wants and miseries.
Commenting on Matthew 17:14-21
And Jesus rebuked the devil,.... The words may indeed be rendered, "and Jesus rebuked him, and the devil departed out of him"; so the Vulgate Latin, and the Oriental versions; but the sense our version gives is certainly right; for it was not the father of the child Christ rebuked for his unbelief; this he had done already; nor the lunatic himself, as some have...
Verse 18. And Jesus rebuked the devil. The word rebuke has the combined force of reproving and commanding. He reproved him for having afflicted the child, and he commanded him to come out of him. has recorded the words which he used--words implying reproof and command: "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him." And...