Luca 7:21

21 Or in quella stessa ora egli ne guarì molti d’infermità, e di flagelli, e di spiriti maligni; ed a molti ciechi donò il vedere

Luca 7:21 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 7:21

And in that same hour
Or at that same time, for a precise hour is not intended: one exemplar reads, "in that day", in which these men came to Christ,

he,
Jesus, as the Persic version expresses it,

cured many of their infirmities;
bodily weaknesses and disorders: and plagues; which were inflicted on them as scourges and corrections for sin, very severe diseases, as epilepsies, leprosies, palsies and of evil spirits; or devils, which he dispossessed and commanded out of the bodies of men; though sometimes evil spirits, with the Jews, signify some kinds of bodily diseases: as when it is said ^F9

``whoever puts out a lamp because he is afraid of Gentiles, or of thieves, or of (her xwr) , "an evil spirit", or because of a sick man that is asleep, he is free.''

Upon which Maimonides observes,

``an evil spirit they call all kinds of diseases, which, in the Arabic language, go by the name of "melancholy"; for it is one kind of the diseases mentioned, which makes a sick man to fly, and separate himself from mankind, as if he was afraid of the light, or of coming into the company of men:''

and unto many that were blind he gave sight;
freely, as an act of grace and kindness, as the word signifies, without any merit, or motive, in them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Misn. Sabbat, c. 2. sect. 5. Vid Maimon. Hilchot Gerushin, c. 2. sect. 14.

Luca 7:21 In-Context

19 Ed egli, chiamati a sè due de’ suoi discepoli, li mandò a Gesù, a dirgli: Sei tu colui che ha da venire, o pur ne aspetteremo noi un altro?

20 Quegli uomini adunque, essendo venuti a Gesù, gli dissero: Giovanni Battista ci ha mandati a te, a dirti: Sei tu colui che ha da venire, o pur ne aspetteremo noi un altro?

21 Or in quella stessa ora egli ne guarì molti d’infermità, e di flagelli, e di spiriti maligni; ed a molti ciechi donò il vedere

22 E Gesù, rispondendo, disse loro: Andate, e rapportate a Giovanni le cose che avete vedute ed udite: che i ciechi ricoverano la vista, che gli zoppi camminano, che i lebbrosi son nettati, che i sordi odono, che i morti sono risuscitati, che l’evangelo è annunziato a’ poveri.

23 E beato è chi non sarà stato scandalezzato in me.