ACC ~ Mark 1 v24a

THE EARLIEST INTIMATION OF HIS IDENTITY

BEDE: It was appropriate, since death first entered into the world through the devil’s envy, [1] that the healing medicine of salvation should first operate against him. … The presence of the Savior is the torment of the devils. EXPOSITION ON THE GOSPEL OF MARK 1.1.25. [2]

[1] Gen 3:15.

[2] Cetedoc 1355, 1.1.406, 409 ; GMI 29. Cf. HOG 1:121; HOG 1:122; GC 1:370. As death first came by the demonic, so salvation first came by Christ binding up the demonic.