Diseases of the Bible / by Risdon Bennett.

  • James Risdon Bennett
Date:
1887
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    Leprosy symbolical of sin ; and when all over the body and clean signifies ttjs akr\Odas a-nXovv xpS>ixa.—Clem. Alex. Padag. lib. iii. cap. ii. p. 286, ed. Venet. 1757. (Vid. Phil. Lib. dc Plantat. § 26. tom. i. p. 346, ed. Mangey.) 'Lepra doctrina est falsa.' Leprosi are heretics and six kinds of leprosy correspond to different heresies.— Lsidorns Hispal. Myst. Exposit. Sacrani., sen ' Ouaest. in Levit! cap. 11, tom. ii. p. 237. ' Nemo variet, nemo leprosus sit. Doctrina inconstans, non habens unum colorem, mentis lepram significat: et istam Christus mundat.'—St. August. Sermo clxxvii. tom. V. p. 1217. D., ed. Paris, 1837. Leprosy in the Jiouse.—'Men, clothes, and stones have not the same sort of diseases; but the names of human diseases are by analogy (or, as the Grammarian terms it, by figure of speech) applied to the diseases of other things. In Berne, for instance, they speak of the cancer of bnildiiigs, but then that is not the distemper so called in the human body. The cancer of buildings is with equal propriety a Swiss, as the leprosy of bnildings is a Hebrew, expression .... [In Egypt] two sorts of diseases of certain trees, proceeding from insects, are there termed leprosy .... Hasselquist likewise has (in p. 221 of his Travels in the Holy Land) spoken of a leprosy in the fig- trees.'—Michaelis, Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, vol. iii. p. 288 ; Lond. 1814. Diseases of the Nervotcs System, p. 81.—The R. V. translates aekriindCeTai, in Matt. xvii. 15 'epileptic,' and not lunatic, as given in the A. V. But if this new reading be accepted as the more correct, the subject of the miracle was none the less ' insane,' even if the words ' and the devil (or demon) went out from him' imply something more than ordinary insanity. The new French Version of Dr. L. Segond retains the term ' lunatique,' and says, ' Jesus menaga le demon qui sortit de lui.'