.J06 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. XI. Chrys. My effortsto resist,supply Me with power ? CHRYS. But if inMati. he who does not work with Me is My adversary,how ranch more he who opposesMe? It seems however to me that He here under a figurerefersto the Jews, ranging them with the devil. For they also acted against,and scatteredthose whom He gatheredtogether. 24. When the uncleanspiritisgone out ofa man, he walketh through dry places,seekingrest; and findingnone,he saith,I willreturnunto my house whence I came out. 25. And when he cometh,he findethitswept and garnished. 26. Then goethhe,and takethto him sevenother spiritsmore wicked than himself;and theyenterin, and dwellthere: and the laststateof that man is worsethan thefirst. CYRIL. Afterwhat had gone before,our Lord proceedsto shew how it was that the Jewish people had sunk to these opinionsconcerning Christ,saying,When the uncleanspirit isgone out of a man, $c. For that thisexample relatesto Matt.12,the Jews, Matthew has explained when he says,Even so shallit be also unto thiswicked generation. For all the time that they were livingin Egypt in the practiceof the Egyptians, there dwelt in them an evil spirit,which was drawn out of them when they sacrificedthe lamb as a type of Christ,and were sprinkledwith itsblood,and so escaped the destroyer. AMBROSE. The comparison then is between one man and the whole Jewish people,from whom through the Law the unclean spirithad been castout. But because in the Gen tiles,whose heartswere firstbarren,but afterwardsin bap tism moistened with the dew of the Spirit,the devilcould findno restbecause of theirfaithin Chiist,(forto the un cleanspiritsChristisa naming fire,)he then returnedto the Jewish people. Hence itfollows,And findingnone,he saith, I willreturnto my housewhence I came.