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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 5:1-20

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“(ubi sup.) For it is a great torment for a devil to cease to hurt a man, and the more severely he possesses him, the more reluctantly he lets him go. For it goes on, For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 5:1-20 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗

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