That at least the shadow, &c.— The efficacy of St. Peter's shadow in curing distempers, is so far from being natural, or likely to enter into the minds of any, that nothing but the force of truth could have rendered it credible; and it must have been experience which first gave the idea of it. For the sick being exposed in the streets where the apostles passed, that they might receive from them a cure by their prayers and the imposition of hands, they found that the shadow of Peter had the sacred power; and this unlooked-for experiment became afterwards a means of their faith and expectation.
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Acts 5:15
15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick intoa the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.