s 3:6 : "They carry fire of hell with them wherever they go." Nor is this contrary to what is said ( Lk. 8:31 ), "They besought the Lord not to cast them into the abyss"; for they asked for this, deeming it to be a punishment for them to be cast out of a place where they could in…

infernus vocatur in Evangelio: «Rogabat eum legio, ne eum mitteret in abyssum [Note: [Col. 0853] 1 Luc. VIII, 31.] ,» id est, ne eos mergeret in infernum. Per abyssum, dolores mortis, ut in Psalmis: «Ponens in thesauris abyssos [Note: [Col. 0853] 2 Psal. XXXIII, 7.] ,» id est…

, 17) . Sic a legione daemonum ad duo millia porcorum grex praecipitatus est, et in mari suffocatus (Luc. VIII, 26-37) . [Col. 0026D] Pastores autem fugerunt, et venientes in urbem omnia nuntiaverunt (Matth. VIII, 33) . Hominibus itaque sanatis, porcisque praecipitatis, Geraseni…