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When the Bible speaks about health it is generally not a primary focus
to teach medical knowledge but rather to teach spiritual or theological
knowledge even when adequate medical knowledge may have been available.
The main medical conditions were loosely descriptive around symptoms or
conditions with which the reader could relate. Fever, for example, may have
many causes, bacterial, viral and other infections, however the Bible may only
mention a fever.
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When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law
lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her,
and she got up and began to wait on him.” 42
“In the Bible there has also been a distinction made between a mild or
a high fever. “FEVER—(Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52;
Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which
attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very
common. Peter’s wife’s mother is said to have suffered from a “great
fever” (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke’s professional exactitude in
describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as
in those times fevers were divided into the “great” and the “less.”” 43
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