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Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), Sandro Botticelli

Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:28–34: Augustine of Hippo

Sandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480 · Ognissanti, Florence · Public domainSandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480, Ognissanti, Florence

CommentAugustine of HippoPublic domainMatthew 8:28–34

Whereas Matthew relates that there were two who were afflicted with daemons, but Mark and Luke mention only one, you must understand that one of them was a person of note, for whom all that country was in grief, and about whose recovery there was much care, whence the fame of this miracle was the more noised abroad.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).

Also cites: De. Cons. Evan., ii, 24

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