_The disease of king Jehoram._
Of king Jehoram it is related, that, "for his wicked life, the Lord
smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease, so that he voided
his intestines daily for the space of two years, and then died of the
violence of the[70] distemper." Two impious kings are recorded to have
had the same end, Antiochus Epiphanes, and Agrippa; of whom it was
said: [Greek: Eis ti ta splanchna tois ou splanchnizomenois].[71]
[70] _Chronicles, Book ii. Chap. xxi. Verse 18._
[71] _See the Notes of Grotius on this Place._
Of what avail are bowels to those
who have no bowels?
Now this distemper seems to me to be no other than a severe
dysentery. For in this the intestines are ulcerated, and blood flows
from the eroded vessels, together with some excrement, which is always
liquid, and slimy matter; and sometimes also some fleshy strings come
away, so that the very intestines may seem to be ejected.