Still another word occurs at Matt. See farther on that passage. It may mean here preparing the nets for the next fishing . Sickness, Disease , Torments , Taken, Lunatic . The description of the ailments to which our Lord 's power was applied gains in vividness by study of the words in detail.
Homer always represents nosov as the visitation of an angry deity .
Disease is, therefore, the more correct rendering as expressing something stronger than sickness or debility. Sickness, however, suits the other word, malakian. The kindred adjective, malakov, means soft, as a couch or newly-ploughed furrow, and thus easily runs into our invidious moral sense of softness, namely, effeminacy or cowardice, and into the physical sense of weakness , sickness. Hence the word emphasizes the idea of debility rather than of violet suffering or danger . Then follow the specific forms of suffering, the list headed again by the inclusive word nosoiv, diseases , and the kai following having the force of and particularly.