“And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.”
And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the abyss — the request not to be sent to the abyss (abyssos, the bottomless pit of eschatological imprisonment) is the demons' fear of premature judgment. Luke specifies the abyss where Mark specifies the region — the demons fear the eschatological confinement that Jesus' arrival signals.
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