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But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever - Luke, as was natural in “the beloved physician” (Col 4:14), describes it professionally; calling it a “great fever,” and thus distinguishing it from that lighter kind which the Greek physicians were wont to call “small fevers,” as Galen, quoted by Wetstein, tells us.
and anon - immediately.
they tell him of her - naturally hoping that His compassion and power towards one of His own disciples would not be less signally displayed than towards the demonized stranger in the synagogue.