Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) Mystically, however, Gerasa or Gergese, as some read it, is interpreted casting out a dweller or a stranger approaching, because the people of the Gentiles both expelled the enemy from the heart, and he who was afar off is made near.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 5:1-20
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗