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What is a Lunatic?
        LU'NATIC
     It was formerly supposed that the changes of the moon (Luna) had an influence upon certain diseases of a paroxysmal character, and persons affected with those diseases were therefore called lunatics; hence, distracted persons who are sane at intervals are still called lunatics though the idea of their being at all under the influence of the moon is generally regarded as irrational. In the two places in which the word occurs in our translation of the Bible, Matt 4:24; Lev 17:15, it seems to be nearly identical with "epileptic." LUST was not used formerly in its present restricted sense, but of any strong desire. In the A.V. it is the translation of three Hebrew and four Greek words. "To lust" appears six times in the A.V. Ps 81:12; Rom 1:24-27.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'lunatic' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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