“And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.”
He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned — the destruction of two thousand pigs is the physical demonstration that the Legion has been completely expelled. The rushing, the bank, the drowning — the momentum of the herd once the spirits enter is unstoppable. The same sea that threatened to drown the disciples in the storm has just drowned two thousand pigs. The economic loss is enormous and immediate — and it will be the townspeople's primary concern when they arrive.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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