καὶ ἐπέτρεψεν : permission, not command, to enter; in Mt. not even that, simply a peremptory: Depart! vide notes there. εἰσῆλθον : an inference from the sequel; neither exit nor entrance could be seen. There was doubtless a coincidence between the cure and the catastrophe. ὡς δισχίλιοι : about 2000, an estimate of the herds possibly exaggerated. ἐπνίγοντο (πνίγω, to choke), were drowned, used in this sense in Joseph., A. J., x., 7, 5, regarding Jeremiah in the dungeon.

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