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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    as [Tra^aXuri/co?] a palsied person—one sick of the palsy ; while St. Luke does not use that term, but defines the condition of the patient by a word [TrapaXeXu/Aej/o?], translated in the Authorised Version, ‘ taken with a palsy,’ and in the Revised Version, ‘ palsied.’ This latter word [IlapaXeXviuLevos] has almost the same mean- ing as that used by SS. Matthew and Mark ; but it is a technical term, which the former, strictly speaking, is not ; and so, while it marks the accuracy of ‘ the beloved physician,’ the non-use of it, except by St. Luke, tends to show the reliable nature of the records of the other two, who use popular phraseology quite consistent with the truth of the story. The word [Tra^aXurt/co?] used by SS. Matthew and Mark means one affected with [wapoXva-is] paralysis. This latter word means, primarily, a loosening aside ; and, secondarily, a disabling the nerves in the Ihnbs of one side. The word [TrapaXeXvjiiivog] used by St. Luke implies relaxa- tion or debility at the side, and thence general feebleness or exhaiistion. It is used in connex- ion with nautical phraseology, to describe the condition of a boat with disabled or abstracted oars, and thence is applied to the condition of
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