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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Evil spirits are called "unclean" because they love all manner of unclean deeds. To come out of a man the demon considers "destruction" for itself. Malicious demons in general count it as suffering for themselves when they are not permitted to do evil to people. Moreover, being lovers of the flesh and accustomed to taking pleasure in matter, they endure as it were a great hunger when they do not dwell in bodies. Therefore the Lord also says that the demonic race is cast out by fasting. …
Western Saints
Bede
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, etc. This is not a confession of the will, which follows the reward of confessing, but an extortion of necessity, which compels the guilty to confess. And just as if runaway slaves, after a long time, see their master, they fear nothing but whips, so also the demons, seeing the Lord suddenly dwelling on earth, believed that he had come to judge them. The presence of the Savior is torment for demons.
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