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Luke 8:33

Luke 8:33

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Then: By this was fully evinced the sovereign power of our Lord, and the reality of diabolical agency; "for," says Dr. Doddridge, "it was self-evident that a herd of swine could not be confederates in any fraud; their death, therefore, in this instructive circumstance, was ten thousand times a greater blessing to mankind than if they had been slain for food, as was intended."

the herd: ; ;

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