Caths are the bomb diggity. Notice the demon cries out Jesus name and adjures Him in reverance and submission. Jesus uses the other form of adjuration of authority and power!
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Adjuration
(Latin
adjurare, to swear; to affirm by
oath). An urgent demand made upon another to do something, or to desist from doing something, which demand is rendered more solemn and more irresistible by coupling with it the name of
God or of some sacred
person or thing. Such, too, was the primitive use of the word. In its
theological acceptation, however, adjuration never carries with it the
idea of an
oath, or the calling upon
God to
witness to the
truth of what is asserted. Adjuration is rather an earnest appeal, or a most stringent command requiring another to act, or not to act, under pain of divine
[COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]visitation[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] or the rupture of the sacred ties of reverence and
love. Thus, when
Christ was
silent in the house of
Caiphas, answering nothing to the things that were
witnessed against Him, the
High Priest would force Him to speak and so said to Him: "I adjure Thee by the
living God, that Thou tell us if Thou be the
Christ the
Son of God." (
Matthew 26:63) Adjuration may be either deprecatory or imprecatory. The one implies deference, affection, reverence, or
prayer; the other, authority, command, or menace. The one may be addressed to any
rational creature except the
demon; the other can be addressed only to inferiors and the
demon. In Mark (v, 7) the man with the unclean spirit cast himself at the feet of
Jesus saying: "What have we to do with Thee
Jesus the
Son of the Most High God? I adjure Thee that Thou torment me not." The wretched
man recognized that
Christ was his superior, and his attitude was that of
humility and petition.
Caiphas, on the contrary, fancied himself vastly superior to the Prisoner before him. He stood and commanded
Christ to declare Himself under pain of incurring the wrath of Heave. It is hardly
necessary to insist that one mode of adjuration is to be employed when addressing the
Deity and quite another when dealing with the powers of darkness. Helpless
man, calling upon
Heaven to assist him, adds weight to his naked words by joining with them the persuasive names of those whose deeds and
virtues are written in the Book of Life. No
necessity is thereby laid upon the Almighty, and no constraint save that of benevolence and
love. But when the spirit of darkness is to be adjured, it is never allowable to address him in the language of peace and friendship.
Satan must ever be approached as
man's eternal enemy. He must be spoken to in the language of hostility and command. Nor is there aught of
presumption in such treatment of the
evil one. It were indeed egregious temerity for
man to cope single-handed with the
devil and his
ministers, but the name of
God, reverently invoked, carries with it an efficacy which
demons are unable to withstand. Nor should it be supposed that adjuration implies disrespect for the Almighty. If it is allowable to invoke the adorable name of
God in order to induce others to build more securely upon our world, it must be equally permissible to make use of the made means in order to impel others to action. Indeed, when used under due
conditions, that is "in
truth, in
justice, and in judgment", adjuration is a positive act of religion, for it presupposes on the part of the speaker
faith in
God and his superintending Providence, as well as an acknowledgment that He is to be reckoned with in the manifold affairs of life. What more beautiful form of
prayer that that of the
litany, wherein we beg
immunity from
evil through the
Advent, the Birth, the
Fasting, the Cross, the Death and Burial, the
Holy Resurrection, and the wonderful
Ascension of the
Second Person of the
Blessed Trinity?
Christ Himself recommends this form of invocation: "Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in My name, that will I do: that the Father may be Glorified in the Son" (
John 14:13).
[COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Acting[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] upon this promise, the
Church sends all her more solemn
prayers with the adjuration:
Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum (Through
Our Lord Jesus Christ). St. Thomas declares that the words of
Christ, "in My name that shall cast out
devils" (
Mark 16:17) give all
believing Christians warrant to adjure the spirit of
evil. This, however, must not be done out of mere curiosity, for vainglory, or for any other unworthy motive. According to Acts (xix, 12)
St. Paul was successful in casting out wicked
spirits, whereas the
Jewish exorcists, using magic arts purporting to come from Solomon, "attempted to invoke over them that had
evil spirits, the name of the
Lord Jesus, saying: 'I conjure you by
Jesus, whom
Paul preaches,'" were leaped upon and overcome by those possessed, in such sort that they found it convenient "to flee out of that house, naked and wounded." In adjuring the
demon one may bid him depart in the name of the Lord, or in such other language as
faith and
piety may suggest; or he may drive him forth by the formal and fixed
prayers of the
Church. The first manner, which is free to all
Christians, is called private adjuration. The second, which is reserved to the
ministers of the
Church alone, is called solemn. Solemn adjuration, or adjuration properly so called, corresponds to the Greek
exorkismos. It properly means an expelling of the
evil one. In the
Roman Ritual there are many forms of solemn adjuration. These are to be found, notably, in the
ceremony of
baptism. One is pronounced over the water, another over the
salt, while many are pronounced over the child. Manifold and solemn as are the adjurations pronounced over the
catechumen in
baptism, those uttered over the possessed are more numerous and, if possible, more solemn. This
ceremony, with its
rubrics, takes up thirty pages of the
Roman Ritual. It is, however, but rarely used, and never without the express permission of the
bishop, for there is room for no end of deception and hallucination when it is question of dealing with the unseen powers. (See BAPTISM;
DEVIL;
EXORCISM.)
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