But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
We may wonder at the wickedness of the daemon; he had obstructed both inlets by which he could believe, namely, hearing and sight. But Christ opened both, whence it follows, “And he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb bothspake and saw.”