thorowout all Syria] Even to the Gentiles, to make a preparation for their future conversion, and make the condemnation of those Jews the greater, which followed him not. they brought unto him, &c.] They were more carefull of the bodies of themselves and theirs, then of their souls: as those, John 6:26. Hence it is, that men seek more to physicians then to divines. torments] Most painfull diseases. The word signifieth primarily, such torments as were inflicted on men, to make them confesse the truth. possessed with devils] So that Satan tyrannized over their reason and senses, that they could make no use of them, but to their own hurt, and the hurt of others. lunatick] Such as were more or lesse afflicted, according to the changes of the moon, as those that are frantick, or have the falling-sicknesse. Others think they have these diseases, because they were born in the eclipse of the moon, and are therefore so called. those that had the palsie] Weak and feeble men, who have their limbs and joynts loosed, and so weakned, that they cannot pull them up, nor put them forth when they would.