Could Basilides be Josephus?

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Re: Could Basilides be Josephus?

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'Healing lames' is only mentioned in Matthew and Luke.

Mar 8:23
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and ' spat into his eyes' , and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

Suet. Ves. 7
who assured them that he would restore sight to the one by anointing his eyes with his spittle

Book of John as a different approach.

Jhn 9:6
he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay

This is mentioned in Pliny (Chap 7 , Properties of Human Spit) that Human Spit as healing properties.

Plin. Nat. 28.7
On the same principle, it is the practice in all cases where medicine is employed, to spit three times on the ground ... We may well believe, then, that lichens and leprous spots may be removed by a constant application of fasting spittle; that ophthalmia(inflammation of the eye,) may be cured by anointing, as it were, the eyes every morning with fasting spittle

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... ht=spittle
https://vivliothikiagiasmatos.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/joseph-yahuda-hebrew-is-greek.pdf
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