Matthew Poole and continuators on John 5:7
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John5:7
7 The impotent man answered, (Sir) I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the Pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me .
What his particular Impotency was, the Scripture doth not tell us: Some have (not improbably) judged it the Palsie, which depriveth the Person of Motion, by the stoppage of the Animal Spirits, so that without help he cannot move from one place to another, which it is manifest this poor man could not; for
he complaineth for want of help, that he could not get into the Pool.
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