45. What do you say again,
oh you3324
| 3324 In
the height of his indignation and contempt, the writer stops short and
does not apply to his opponents any new epithet. |
—?
Is He then a man, is He one of us, at whose command, at whose voice,
raised in the utterance of audible and intelligible words,
3325
| 3325
This is contrasted with the mutterings and strange words used by the
magicians. |
infirmities,
diseases,
fevers, and other ailments of the body fled away? Was
He one of us, whose presence, whose very sight, that race of
demons
which took possession of men was unable to bear, and
terrified by the
strange power, fled away? Was He one of us, to whose order the
foul
leprosy, at once checked, was
obedient, and left sameness of
colour to bodies formerly spotted? Was He one of us, at whose
light touch the issues of
blood were stanched, and stopped their
excessive flow?
3326
| 3326
So the ms. according to Oehler, and
seemingly Heraldus; but according to Orelli, the ms. reads immoderati (instead
of—os) cohibebant fluores, which Meursius received
as equivalent to “the excessive flow stayed itself.” |
Was
He one of us, whose
hands the waters of the lethargic
dropsy fled from,
and that searching
3327
| 3327
Penetrabilis, “searching,” i.e., finding its way to
all parts of the body. |
fluid
avoided; and did the swelling
body, assuming a
healthy dryness, find
relief? Was He one of us,
who bade the
lame run? Was it His
work, too, that the
maimed
stretched forth their
hands, and the joints relaxed the
rigidity
3328
| 3328
So Orelli, LB., Elmenhorst, and Stewechius, adopting a marginal reading
of Ursinus, which prefixes im—to the ms.
mobilitates—“looseness”—retained by the
other edd. |
acquired
even at
birth; that the paralytic rose to their
feet, and persons now
carried
home their
beds who a little before were borne on the shoulders
of others; the blind were restored to sight, and men born without eyes
now looked on the heaven and the day?
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