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  • Gadarene and heathen, and the other from some other place, a Gergesene and a

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • They took boats, and rowed and sailed across to the Wady Kerza, the scene of the healing of the Gergesene demoniac, and to the grassy, flowery little plain at the north of the Lake where Christ had fed the five thousand; and they climbed the hill to the summit of which He had fled to find calm and solitude for prayer.

    Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

  • Selah has as many devils in her as the Gergesene who dwelt among the tombs, I'll be sworn to it; and if she's provoked, she'll let them all loose in

    Philistia Grant Allen 1873

  • Gadarene or Gergesene swine presents insurmountable difficulties; it seems grotesque and nonsensical.

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • "Now to the materialistic and scientific mind, to the uninitiated in spiritual verities, certainly this story of the Gadarene or Gergesene swine, presents insurmountable difficulties; it seems grotesque and nonsensical.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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