Bible Dictionary: Diseases: Lunacy

◄ Diseases: Lunacy ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 17:15
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for often he falls into the fire, and oft into the water.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Note on Demons.
... holds that our Lord found a general belief in demoniacal agency, which attributed
to demons various diseases, including some forms of lunacy, and epilepsy ...
/.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/note on demons.htm

Of Evil Angels
... asking an experienced physician, and one particularly eminent for curing lunacy,
"Sir, have ... Who can tell how many of those diseases which we impute altogether ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 72 of evil angels.htm

A Desperate Case --How to Meet It
... it seems, to epileptic fits; for I think we can hardly understand lunacy to mean ...
heal your finger-aches; he does not know how to make these foul diseases fly.". ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/a desperate casehow to meet.htm

Our First Proposition Was, that There is Satisfactory Evidence ...
... Batty on Lunacy.) The cases ... from those narratives which relate to the supernatural
cure of hypochondriacal and nervous complaints, and of all diseases which are ...
/.../paley/evidences of christianity/chapter i our first proposition.htm