Hearing today's gospel reading I was reminded of one of Papa's quotes, which we still fondly use at home: Shut up and keep quiet!
Jesus preached to the people with authority. If so why did he have to give the demon a double command: Be quiet and get out! He could have either told it to be silent or asked it to get out all together. Either way, the person would have been healed - at least mostly. But from experience of Papa's use of this statement, I think, unless the demon left and left silently, the harm done would be equally bad, if it were only silent and still plaguing the person from within.
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