“And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.”
And he said to them, Go. So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. Jesus' single word — Go — and the entire herd rushes to destruction. The pigs in the sea recall the Egyptian army in the sea at the Exodus; the drowning of the forces of oppression in the waters is the liberation pattern repeated. The demons who sought to continue inhabiting bodies by moving to pigs find that the pigs' destruction leaves them without a home. The cost of the two men's liberation — two thousand drowned pigs — is the cost to the local economy that produces the community's response in verse 34.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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