* Then.
   By this was fully evinced the sovereign power of our Lord, and
   the reality of diabolical agency; "for," says Dr. Doddridge,
   "it was self-evident that a herd of swine could not be
   confederates in any fraud; their death, therefore, in this
   instructive circumstance, was ten thousand times a greater
   blessing to mankind than if they had been slain for food, as
   was intended."

 * the herd.
  Joh 8:44  1Pe 5:8  Re 9:11