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15. σεληνιάζεται. This is the only special instance of cure in the case of a lunatic. They are mentioned as a class, ch. Mat 4:24. The word literally means ‘affected by changes of the moon.’ On the thought underlying the word, that there is an access of mania at the time of lunar changes, see Belcher, Our Lord’s Miracles of Healing, p. 131.
St Mark describes the child as foaming, gnashing with his teeth, and pining away. St Luke mentions that he ‘crieth out.’ All these were epileptic symptoms; ‘the child was a possessed epileptic lunatic.’