“And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;”
Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning — the word for strong warning (embrimēsamenos) is a harsh term: to snort with anger, to be deeply moved with indignation. Jesus sends the healed man away immediately and with intensity. The urgency and force communicate that Jesus is not offering polite suggestions but strongly pressing a requirement he expects to be obeyed. The strong warning connects to the Messianic Secret pattern: the healed man is being sent with specific and urgent instructions about what he must do and must not do, instructions that the next verse reveals — and the man will immediately disobey.
Church Fathers on Mark 1:43
After that the serpent-tongue of the devils was shut up, and the woman, who was first seduced, cured of a fever, in the third place, the man, who listened to the evil counsels of the woman, is cleansed from his leprosy, that the order of restoration in the Lord might be the same as was the order of the fall in our first parents.
Mark puts together circumstances, from which one may infer that he is the same as that one whom Matthew relates to have been cleansed, when the Lord came down from the mount, after the sermon. [Matt 8:2]
For he said not, If thou wilt, pray unto God, but, 'If Thou wilt,' as thinking Him very God.
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