For he feared lest some time or other the devils should find him, and enter into him a second time. But the Lord sends him back to his house, intimating to him, that though He Himself was not present, yet His power would keep him; at the same time also that he might be of use in the healing of others.
Wherefore it goes on: “And He did not suffer him, and saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, &c.”
See the humility of the Saviour. He said not, ‘Proclaim all things which I have done to you,’ but, all that the Lord hath done; do thou also, when thou hast done any good thing, take it not to thyself, but refer it to God.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).