Mark 9:18

wheresoever According to St Matthew these crises had a connection with changes of the moon (Matthew 17:15).

he teareth him Probably this manifested itself in violent convulsions, St Vitus" dance, or the like.

pineth away "wexip drye," Wyclif. The word may denote either that he pined away like one, the very springs of whose life were dried up, or that in the paroxysms of his disorder his limbs became unnaturally stiff and stark. The fundamental form of his malady was epilepsy in its worst form, accompanied by dumbness, atrophy, and suicidal mania (Mark 9:22).