Bloody Flux
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Bloody Flux

BLOODY FLUX

fluks (puretos kai dusenteria, literally "fever and dysentery"): The disease by which the father of Publius was afflicted in Malta (Acts 28:8). the Revised Version (British and American) calls it "dysentery"; a common and dangerous disease which in Malta is often fatal to soldiers of the garrison even at the present day (Aitken, Pract. of Medicine, II, 841). It is also prevalent in Palestine at certain seasons, and in Egypt its mortality was formerly about 36 percent. Its older name was due to the discharge of blood from the intestine. Sometimes portions of the bowel become gangrenous and slough, the condition described as affecting Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:19). There seems to have been an epidemic of the disease at the time of his seizure (2 Chronicles 21:14, 15), and in the case of the king it left behind it a chronic ulcerated condition, ending in gangrene. Somewhat similar conditions of chronic intestinal ulceration following epidemic dysentery I have seen in persons who had suffered from this disease in India.

Alex. Macalister

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bloody Flux

(Acts 28:8) the same as our dysentery, which in the East is, though sometimes sporadic, generally epidemic and infectious, and then assumes its worst form.

Greek
1420. dusenterion -- dysentery
... dysentery. From dus- and a comparative of entos (meaning a bowel); a "dysentery" --
bloody flux. see GREEK dus-. see GREEK entos. (dusenterio) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Paul and his Praying (Continued)
... In the same quarter at the time, was the father of Publius, who was very ill
of a fever, and bloody flux, approaching seemingly his end. ...
/.../bounds/prayer and praying men/xiv paul and his praying.htm

Acts xxviii. 1
... And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody
flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily liv acts xxviii 1.htm

After the Wreck
... who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.8. And it came to pass, that
the father of Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody flux: to whom ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/after the wreck.htm

Index i. Of Subjects
... raising of Jairus' daughter at, 616-634; healing of the woman with the bloody
flux, 620; Christ leaves it, 635; teaches near it, 654; ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/index i of subjects.htm

Paul in Malta and Rome.
... And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody
flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxix paul in malta.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. viii. 8, "I am not Worthy that ...
... Touch then, if thou art suffering from a bloody flux. There will go power
out of Him whose garment it is, and it will heal thee. ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xii on the words.htm

The Voyage and Shipwreck
... And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody
flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 42 the voyage and.htm

Homeward Bound
... clay coil. It was a case of hard dying, redoubled paroxysms, fierce fever,
and bloody flux, and dreadful details. He would wear ...
/.../marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/chapter x homeward bound.htm

Appendix xvi. On the Jewish views About Demons' and the Demonised ...
... the contrast to the Savior's mode of treatment, it may be mentioned that quite a
number of remedies are suggested for the cure of a bloody flux - of which ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix xvi on the jewish.htm

Of Good Angels
... "In his Meditations, he solemnly thanks God for revealing to him, when he was at
Cajeta, in a dream, what totally cured the bloody flux; which none of his ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 71 of good angels.htm

Resources
Why did God prohibit eating meat with blood in it (Genesis 9:4)? | GotQuestions.org

Was the killing of Saul's descendants a just response to Saul's killing of the Gibeonites? | GotQuestions.org

What was a blood covenant (Genesis 15:9-21)? | GotQuestions.org

Bloody: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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