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
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``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;