From Nave’s Topical Bible
Epilepsy
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
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- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningMark 9:17–22
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The passages, in Bible order (1)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 1 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Mark 9:17–22
Someone in the crowd replied, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a spirit that makes him mute.
Commentary on Mark 9:17–222 voices
The contrast between these verses and those which precede them in the chapter is very striking. We pass from the mount of transfiguration to a melancholy history of the work of the devil. We come down from the vision of glory — to a conflict with Satanic possession. We change the blessed company of Moses and Elijah — for crude interaction with unbelieving Scribes.
J.C. Ryle· Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition), 1857
A dumb spirit - That is, a demon who afflicted those in whom it dwelt with an incapacity of speaking. The spirit itself could not be either deaf or dumb. These are accidents that belong only to organized animate bodies. See this case explained, Mat 17:14 (note), etc.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical