Of course, if anyone with a common school education knows a “devil” means “tormentor.” You’ve got a tormentor in your soul, see your pastor. You’ve got a torment in your body, that’s what I’m here for. See? All right. Tormentor, devil… Epilepsy, that’s a name the medical science gives today. When the man brought an epileptic to Jesus, he said, “My son has a devil. And oft times he throws him into the fire and into the water.” See what it was? Falling, pines away, faints out: epilepsy. He said, “The devil throws him in.” And Jesus cast the spirit out, said, “Come out of him.” Is that right? The boy had the hardest fit, I guess, he ever had. He fell on the floor and was frothing there on the ground. They thought he was dead. But He said, “He’s not dead.” And He took him up. He was just…The devil had throwed him into that tantrum before he left him, tore him. Many times it happens.

Believe Ye That I Am Able to Do This?, 1950-08-20, Cleveland, OH, §9