Mark 5:10

Besought him much. The defiant demon now took the attitude of a suppliant begging Jesus for mercy. Possibly he was fearful for his life (see on ch. 1:24).

Out of the country. Luke reads instead, “out into the deep” (ch. 8:31). The Greek word translated “deep” is abussos (see on Rev. 20:1). In the LXX of Gen. 1:2 and 7:11 abussos stands for the Heb. tehom, translated into English as “deep” (see on Gen. 1:2).

In the LXX of Job 28:14 it stands for “sea,” and in Deut. 8:7 and Ps. 71:20 for the “depths” of the earth. In Rom. 10:7 “deep,” abussos, is used to describe the place of “the dead,” particularly with reference to Christ’s death. In Rev. 9:2, 11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1, 3 abussos is translated “bottomless pit.” Used as an adjective in classical Greek, the word means “bottomless,” “boundless.” When used with reference to intelligent beings, abussos seems to imply isolation from other beings and the inability to escape from the situation — as of a man in death or confined alone in a dungeon.