Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to mend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
He enquires of them the hour of the turn for the better of the sick child, to prove whether it coincides with the time of the grace. When he had learnt that thus it was, and no otherwise, he is saved with his whole house, attributing the power of the miracle to the Saviour Christ, and bringing to Him a firmer faith as a fruit of thank-offering for these things.