Our Lord's miracles of healing : considered in relation to some modern objections and to medical science / by T.W. Belcher.

  • Thomas Waugh Belcher
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[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Our Lord's miracles of healing : considered in relation to some modern objections and to medical science / by T.W. Belcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from progressive muscular atrophy, or wast- ing palsy,—brought on by cold, or excessive muscular strain in labour,—or injury to his spine, perhaps — but very doubtfully so — by venereal excess ? The disease had progressed very considerably, so much so as to implicate the tongue; the last stage of the case was approaching, and the intellect was, perhaps, becoming dulled ; and that the case was very urgent, and was deemed to be so, is shown by the extraordinary exertions used by the patient’s friends to gain access to our Lord’s presence. In regard to the above medical commentary, I am satisfied that its writer, with whose relieious convictions I am well acquainted, would not wish to be understood as in any wise attempting to write down or explain away the manifest connexion between this man’s bodily disease and his sin. Nothino^ can be clearer than that the three synoptic Evangelists are pledged to the truth of their story, when they record the words of Christ to the effect that sin and dis- ease were closely connected in this instance. ‘Luke, the Physician,’ is precise here. As before observed, St. Matthew describes this paralytic as [/3e/3X»7/xeVoi/] laid flat, stretched ;
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