Lux Domini
As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.

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Interpretation

Of the two, better a dumb devil than a blaspheming one. Christ's cures strike at the root, and remove the effect by taking away the cause; they open the lips, by breaking Satan's power in the soul.

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This thought runs through Matthew 9:32-35.