John Trapp on Matthew 8:28

Verse 28. Coming out of the tombes] There the devil kept them, the more to terrifie them with the fear of death all their lives long, [illegible: 1 word]. 2. 15. Appius Claudius (as Capella witnesseth) could not abide to [illegible: 1 word] the Greek [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 1 word], because it represented the gnashing of the teeth of dying men. [illegible: 1 word] gives another reason hereof, that the devil hereby sought to perswade silly people, that dead mens souls were turned into devils, and walked (as they call it) especially about tombes and sepulchres. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 2 words]. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. 99. Thus he oft appeared to people, in times of Popery, in the shape of some of their [illegible: 1 word] kindred, and haunted them till he had made them sing a [illegible: 1 word] for [illegible: 1 word] and such a soul. Melancthon tells a [illegible: 1 word] of an Aunt of his, that had her hand burnt to a coal by the devil, [illegible: 1 word] to her in the [illegible: 1 word] of her [illegible: 1 word] husband. And Pareus relates an example (much like this poor demoniack in the text) of a bakers daughter in their countrey, [illegible: 1 word] andPar. in [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] up in a cave she had dig'd as in a grave, to her dying day.