6. When Jesus had come into the house of Peter, he saw his mother-in-law lying down with a fever.35 We should understand in Peter’s mother-in-law a diseased disposition of unbelief that is associated with a freedom of the will,36 and links us to her in a kind of bonded fellowship. Thus, with the Lord’s entry into Peter’s house, that is, in his body, he cured the unbelief of those who are burning in the heat of their sins and who are dominated by the illness of their wickedness. Soon afterwards, now
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