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Now, in the Gadarene affair, I do not think I am unreasonably sceptical, if I say that the existence of demons who can be transferred from a man to a pig, does thus contravene probability. Let me be perfectly candid. I admit I have no a priori objection to offer.
To riddle the story of the Gadarene swine was to make a breach in the whole demonology of the New Testament and its claims to superior knowledge of the spiritual world. It may be noted in passing that, however hard he hit in these controversies, he never descended to anything which would merely wound and offend cherished convictions.
They realised that in the man who had just left the room with Kaid there were characteristics unlike those they had ever met before in Europeans. "A madman," whispered High Pasha to Achmet the Ropemaker. "Then his will be the fate of the swine of Gadarene," said Nahoum Pasha, who had heard. "At least one need not argue with a madman."
We have simply three, partially discrepant, versions of a story, about the primitive form, the origin, and the authority for which we know absolutely nothing. But the evidence in favour of the Gadarene miracle is as good as that for any other.
SIMON: Think of your mother's people! STEPHEN: Dance of death. Baraabum! On nags hogs bellhorses Gadarene swine Corny in coffin Steel shark stone onehandled nelson two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram filling bawling gum he's a champion. Fuseblue peer from barrel rev. evensong Love on hackney jaunt Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes.
And, in the second place, if Jesus taught the demonological system involved in the Gadarene story if a belief in that system formed a part of the spiritual convictions in which he lived and died then I, for my part, unhesitatingly refuse belief in that teaching, and deny the reality of those spiritual convictions.
There were evidently serious disadvantages then in the mixed nature of the club, as there have been since. For example, how did Gladstone meet Huxley after his Gadarene swine had been so unmercifully treated by the man of science?
None of the infernal racket of New York about life in Burlington. Any one who got bitten by that bug here would be afflicted like the Gadarene swine and rush into Lake Champlain. Walk to the hotel? It's a fine morning, and you'll get some bully views of the Adirondacks as you climb the hill." "Winifred is gone. Hasn't the Bureau kept you informed?" Clancy sighed.
"Surely the Gadarene swine went downhill," put in Lady Caroline in a gently enquiring voice. Henry Greech hastily abandoned simile and fell back on platitude and the safer kinds of fact. Francesca did not regard her brother's views on statecraft either in the light of gospel or revelation; as Comus once remarked, they more usually suggested exodus.
So when He said, 'Go home to thy friends, He was answering the request that He seamed to reject, and when the Gadarene obeyed, he would find, to his astonishment and his grateful wonder, that the Lord had not gone away in the boat, but was with him still. 'Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. Lo! I am with you always.
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