Demons And The Way

Et cum venisset trans fretum in regionem Gerasenorum, occurrerunt ei duo habentes daemonia, de monumentis exeuntes, saevi nimis, ita ut nemo posset transire per viam illam. Occurrerunt ei duo daemonia habentes saevi nimis, ita ut nemo posset transire per viam illam. Videtis quia daemones venientibus ad Christum praecluserant viam, transitum denegarant. Etenim daemonum ista cura, ne ad Deum homines possint reditum invenire. Non enim aliter possunt homines possidere, nisi eos ab auctoris sui societate subducant. Ita ut nemo posset transire per viam illam. Hinc est quod Christus factus est via. Ita ut nemo posset transire per viam illam. Illam, non istam. Ego sum, inquit, via. Ut ad viam per viam, ad Deum per Deum venientibus obsistere vis daemonum non valeret: ad Deum nisi per Deum potest perveniri. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo XVI, De Duobus Daemoniacis. Source: Migne PL 52.240b

And when He had come across the water into the country of the Gerasens, there met Him two men who were possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly savage, so that no one could pass along that way. 1 Two men possessed by demons met Him, and they were so very savage that no one was able to pass along that road. You see that the demons had closed the road to those who were coming to Christ, denying them access. For this is the care of demons, that men should be unable to find the way back to God. In no other way can they possess men, unless by leading them away from fellowship with their Creator. 'So that no one could pass along that way.' This is why Christ became 'the Way.' 'So that no one could pass along that way.' That one, not this one. 'I am the Way,' 2 He says, so that the power of demons may not prevail in impeding those coming to the way through the Way, to God through God. It is not possible to come to God except through God. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 16, On The Two Demoniacs 1 Mt 8.28 2 Jn 14.6