But when the multitude saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, who had given such power unto men.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
His rising up is the drawing off the soul from carnal lusts; his taking up hisbed is the raising the flesh from earthly desires to spiritual pleasures; his going to his house is his returning to Paradise, or to internal watchfulness of himself against sin.