ACC ~ Mark 5 v13c

WHY DROWNED?

CHRYSOSTOM: He did this so that you might know that the demons would have done the same thing to human beings and would have drowned them if God had allowed them to do so. But he restrained the demons, stopped them, and allowed them to do no such thing. When their power was transferred to the swine, it became clear to all witnesses what they would have done to persons. From this we learn that if the demons had the power to possess swine, they also could have possessed humans. DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 8.6. [1]

INTO THE MUDDY WATERS

PRUDENTIUS:

Driven forth, the wily demons, legion named that evil scourge,

Seize upon the sordid foulness of a herd of filthy swine

And into the muddy waters plunge themselves with maddened beasts. [2]

HYMN 9. [3]

[1] TLG 2062.021, 48.940.39-45; FC 68:236-27**. God justly allowed brute creatures to be drowned to show how the demonic power over human souls might be broken.

[2] Cf. Mk 5:13.

[3] Cetedoc 1438, 9.55; FC 43:64.

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