Mark 7:32. Had an impediment in his speech. Lit, ‘hardly speaking.' It is more probable that he was ‘deaf and dumb' than a ‘stammerer,' etc. Deafness usually causes dumbness. An actual and separate defect in the vocal organs is, however, suggested both by the form here used and the mode of healing. This man was not possessed, as many thus afflicted were. Possession and such diseases and deformities are to be distinguished; the more so, since Mark is specially apt to tell of our Lord's power over unclean spirits.

To lay his hand upon him. They thought this was necessary.

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