Matthew 17:15. For he is lunatic, or ‘epileptic.' The former phrase is more correct etymologically, the latter best defines the disease in this case, since all the symptoms are those of epilepsy. In chap. Matthew 4:24, ‘lunatics' are distinguished from those ‘possessed.' Many of those possessed had symptoms altogether different. The peculiar difficulty in this case was the combination of this possession and epilepsy. The lad was an only son (Luke 9:38).

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Old Testament