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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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go beyond the evidence. And is there any form of eye disease productive of symptoms which could be described as being buffeted by an angel of Satan?338 (c) Epilepsy. According to Krenkel,339 this interpretation originated with Ziegler.340 Krenkel himself adopts it and elaborates upon it, and is followed by others.341 Looking at the brief information given in the text, he claims that the ἄγγελος is an evil spirit, and observes that Jews, Greeks and Romans attributed epilepsy to supernatural forces.
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