SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:44
Entonces dice: Me volver a mi casa de donde salí; y cuando viene, la halla desocupada, barrida y adornada.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:44
Verse 44. Into my house] The soul of that person from whom he had been expelled by the power of Christ, and out of which he was to have been kept by continual prayer, faith, and watchfulness. He findeth it empty] Unoccupied, scolazonta, empty of the former inhabitant, and ready to receive a new one: denoting a soul that has lost the life and power of godliness, and the testimony of the Holy Spirit.
Swept and garnished.] As scolazw signifies to be idle, or unemployed, it may refer here to the person, as well as to his state. His affections and desires are no longer busied with the things of God, but gad about, like an idle person, among the vanities of a perishing world. Swept, from love, meekness, and all the fruits of the Spirit; and garnished, or adorned, kekosmhmenon, decorated, with the vain showy trifles of folly and fashion. This may comprise also smart speeches, cunning repartees, &c., for which many who have lost the life of God are very remarkable.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 38-45 - Though Christ is always ready to hear and answer holy desires an prayers, yet those who ask amiss, ask and have not. Signs were grante to those who desired them to confirm their faith, as Abraham an Gideon; but denied to those who demanded them to excuse their unbelief The resurrection of Christ from the dead by his own power, called her the sign of the prophet Jonah, was the great proof of Christ's being the Messiah. As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale, an then came out again alive, thus Christ would be so long in the grave and then rise again. The Ninevites would shame the Jews for no repenting; the queen of Sheba, for not believing in Christ. And we have no such cares to hinder us, we come not to Christ upon suc uncertainties. This parable represents the case of the Jewish churc and nation. It is also applicable to all those who hear the word of God, and are in part reformed, but not truly converted. The unclea spirit leaves for a time, but when he returns, he finds Christ is no there to shut him out; the heart is swept by outward reformation, but garnished by preparation to comply with evil suggestions, and the ma becomes a more decided enemy of the truth. Every heart is the residenc of unclean spirits, except those which are temples of the Holy Ghost by faith in Christ.
Greek Textus Receptus
τοτε 5119 ADV λεγει 3004 5719 V-PAI-3S επιστρεψω 1994 5692 V-FAI-1S εις 1519 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM οικον 3624 N-ASM μου 3450 P-1GS οθεν 3606 ADV εξηλθον 1831 5627 V-2AAI-1S και 2532 CONJ ελθον 2064 5631 V-2AAP-NSN ευρισκει 2147 5719 V-PAI-3S σχολαζοντα 4980 5723 V-PAP-ASM σεσαρωμενον 4563 5772 V-RPP-ASM και 2532 CONJ κεκοσμημενον 2885 5772 V-RPP-ASM
Robertson's NT Word Studies
12:44 {Into my house} (eis ton oikon mou). So the demon describes the man in whom he had dwelt. "The demon is ironically represented as implying that he left his victim voluntarily, as a man leaves his house to go for a walk" (McNeile). "Worse than the first" is a proverb.
