71. Concerning the Going Out of an Unclean Spirit From a Person and Its Return. Mt. 12:43–45

When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, and finds none. Then it says, “I will return to my house from which I came”; and when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order. Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last condition of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.