attention and varied conjectures, which need not be reviewed here.21 What must be seen above all else is that the fate of the swine demonstrates the ultimate intention of the demons with respect to the man they had possessed. It is their purpose to destroy the creation of God, and halted in their destruction of a man, they fulfilled their purpose with the swine. The drowning of the swine was not an unforeseen consequence in Jesus’ concession; it was the express purpose which lay behind the request