And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to him possessed of the demons.
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Chromatius of Aquileia
AD 407
The herdsmen fled at the sight of the divine power and reported to the town what had happened. The people entreated the Lord to depart from their district. This may symbolize the leaders of the Jews or the priests of idols, who, dispensing the food of their errors to unclean and unfaithful people, are feeding them like swine to perpetual death.
