23 Aug. 1815

Jug. True

Ch. 12.Diseases & devils many

This being immediately after the probably […?] cure at Simon’s this was a good occasion for a mixture of accomplices & dupes to flock to the spot.

It was of use that the devil should acknowledge him to be the Christ

If in any instance he thought the devil would not acknowledge him the best thing he could do was to forbid it.

Confer Josephus’s dispossession story as reported in Prologue

Ch. 12.

At Capernæum immediately after the cure of Simon Peter’s wife’s mother, many such healed, many devils cast out

Luke IV. 40 41 Matt. VIII. 16. 17. Mark I. 32 to 34. John silent