And the spirit cried, and convulsed him terribly, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; so that many said, He is dead.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Him whom the devil had made like to the dead, the goodness of Christ, by his charitable touch, restored to life. Thus proving at once both his divinity and humanity; the former by his wonderful cure of healing, and the latter by performing this cure by a touch of the hand. (Ven. Bede)
The devil could not inflict a real death on the child, on account of the dissent of the Author of life. (St. Chrysostom)
