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LUKE 8:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 8:32Luke 8:34
“Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.”
When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned — the herd's rush into the lake and drowning immediately follows the possession — the demons get their request and immediately lose what they entered. The lake that the storm nearly used to drown the disciples has now drowned two thousand pigs.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:33

The Savior, as He sailed with His disciples, came to a port, as it is said, And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Many accurate copies have neither “Gerazenes” nor “Gadarenes,” but “Gergezenes.” For Gadara is a city in Judea, but neither lake nor sea is found at it, and Geraza is a city of Arabia, having neither lake nor sea near. But Gergeza, from which the Gergezenes are called, is an ancient city near the lake of Tiberias, above which is a rock hanging over the lake, into which they say the swine were dashed down by the devils. But since Gadara and Geraza border upon the land of the…

TITUS BOST ·

For Geraza is a famous city of Arabia, on the other side of the Jordan, close to the mountain of Galaad, which was possessed by the tribe of Manasseh, and not far from the lake of Tiberias, into which the swine were cast headlong.

Bede · 8th century
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