And Jesus rebuked the demon; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
The lunatic is figuratively one who is hurried into fresh vices every hour, one while is cast into the fire, with which the hearts of the adulterers burn; or again into the waters of pleasures or lusts, which yet have not strength to quench love.