Or else, Mark and Luke relate what was most worthy of compassion, and for this reason they put down more at length what had happened to this man; for there follows, “no man could bind him, no, not with chains.”
They therefore simply said, a “man possessed of a devil,” without taking heed to the number; or else, that he might shew the greater virtue in the Worker; for He who had cured one such, might cure many others. Nor is there any discrepancy shewn here, for they did not say that there was one alone, for then they would have contradicted Matthew.
Now devils dwelt in tombs, wishing to convey a false opinion to many, that the souls of the dead were changed to devils.
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Also cites: Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc., see Chrys., Hom. in Matthew, 28