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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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
He asked therefore, &c. "He studies to be informed concerning the hour," says Cyril, "to see if it coincides with the time when the Saviour"s favour was bestowed upon him."
Yesterday, at the seventh hour: this was an hour after noon, when, the child being healed, the servants had immediately set out to tell the glad news to the father. But they could not reach him on the same day. They travelled therefore the rest of that day, and all through the night, and came to him the next morning, for, as we have said, Capharnaum was fourteen leagues or hours distant from Cana.
