And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Ver. 33. Had kept his bed eight years] A long while surely; but what was this to an eternity of extremity in hell? Oh, take heed, and be forewarned to flee from that wrath to come. And meanwhile, every man that seeth another stricken with such chronic diseases as the palsy, and himself spared, is bound to keep a passover.