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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    perhaps suddenly struck down on his bed ^; or affected with paraplegia, from spinal cord dis- ease ; while the word used by SS. Mark and Luke [/careVefTo] simply means ‘ he lay.’ The same expression is used by St. Mark in describ- ing the case of Simon’s wife’s mother. St. Matthew, then, as in the instance of Simon’s wife’s mother, here uses a word which, we may believe, either expresses the two features of this case which most readily appealed to the public, or is, at least, consistent with their existence—I mean the sudden and the hopeless nature of the affliction ; while, as has been well observed, the accounts of St. Mark and St. Luke throughout bear the vivid stamp of eye- witnesses ; and particularly in the manner in which they relate the unusual feature in the case—the letting down the sick man’s couch into the room where the Saviour was.^ As an eye-witness, St. Mark would naturally note that the man, sick of the palsy, did lie on a bed ; and that he was so helpless that he was ‘ borne of four ’ ver. 3). St. Luke, however, as a medical ^ See the remarks on this expression on pp. 46, 47, in the case of Simon’s wife’s mother. ^Neander, Op. cit. p. 272. But it must not be concluded that they certainly were eye-witnesses.
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