The Demoniac Healed

Et egressi sunt videre quid esset factum. Et veniunt ad Jesum, et vident illum qui a daemonio vexabatur sedentem, vestitum et sanae mentis, et timuerunt... In Evangelio Lucae scriptum est, Sedentem ad pedes ejus. Significat autem multitudinem vetusta sua vita delectatam, honorare quidem, sed nolle pati Christianam legem, dum dicunt quod eam implere non possunt, admirantes tamen fidelem populum a pristina perdita conversatione sanatum. Sedere namque ad pedes Domini, est eum a quo daemonia exierant, eos qui a peccatis correcti fuerint, fixa mentis intentione vestigia sui Salvatoris quae sequantur intueri. Vestitum resumere, est virtutum studia quae vesani perdiderant, jam sana mente recipere. Cui figurae apte congruit illa Domini parabola, in qua rediens ad patrem filius luxuriosus et prodigus, mox stola prima cum annulo induitur, manifeste insinuans quod quisquis vero corde de amissis poenituerit, potest donante Christi gratia, prima justitiae opera de quibus ceciderat, cum annulo inviolatae fidei recuperare. Sanctus Beda, In Marci Evangelium Expositio, Liber II, Caput V Source: Migne PL 92.146e-146d

And they went out to see what had happened, and they came on Jesus and saw the man who had been troubled by a demon seated and clothed and of sane mind, and they were afraid... 1 In the Gospel of Luke it is written that the man was sitting at His feet. 2 This signifies the multitude who delight in the old life, that may honour the Christian law but does not wish to endure it, for they say they are not able to fulfil it, though they may wonder at the faithful people who have been made healthy from their old ruin. Then to sit at the feet of the Lord is for him from whom demons have gone out, those who have been corrected from sins, who with a fixed intention of mind look to follow in the way of the Saviour. They are clothed when with a healthy mind they receive an eagerness for virtue which their madness ruined. To which figure that parable of the Lord aptly refers, in which the prodigal and self indulgent son returns to the father, who immediately bestows on him a robe and ring, 3 openly intimating that whoever repents of what has been lost with an honest heart is able, with the gift of the grace of Christ, to regain those former works of righteousness from which he had fallen, with the ring of inviolate faith. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 2 1 Mk 5.14-15 2 Lk 8.35 3 Lk 15.22