A question about the love of god

[The Grand Nudger]

They also stated them in conjuction, again, because they did not understand the distinction (as you and I do now, with a more comprehensive knowledge of the subject). Even when we might infer a distinction such as "is there no balm"(source me that quote if you like, I can;t remember where it's placed-it's been 15 years) we are ignoring how the people at the time would have conceptualized how balm worked - and upon what it worked. All of this stuff was essentially magic in the western world at the point in time we're referencing except to a handful of greeks (and their "disciples") who were forming the embryo of what we may today call medicine. The idea that demons merely caused "symptoms of disease" would be alien to them (and the concept of a physical cause for disease was largely foreign to them), the disease was the symptoms, and the cause could be anything, demons, foul spirits, etc. Such as my "spirit of infirmity" offered to you pages ago, or any of the others offered to you by other members.