Tertullian On Fasting
for why should what is salutary be sad? He taught likewise that fasts are to be the weapons for battling with the more direful demons:[64]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII
But let us also attend to this, "This kind goeth not out save by prayer and fasting,"[57]
MATTHEW 17:21 _omit verse_ {A} Since there is no satisfactory reason why the passage, if originally present in Matthew, should have been omitted in a wide variety of witnesses, and since copyists fre...
Verse Matthew 17:21. _THIS KIND GOETH NOT OUT BUT BY PRAYER_, c.] τουτο το γενος, _this kind_, some apply to the _faith_ which should be exercised on the occasion, which goeth not out, _doth not exer...
HOWBEIT, THIS KIND ... - This kind means this kind of devils - this species of possession. Where they have had long possession where they produce such painful, fixed, and alarming effects, they can be...
5. THE COMING GLORY; the Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. The Tribute Money. CHAPTER 17 1. The Transfiguration. (Matthew 17:1 .) 2. The Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. (M...
HEALING OF THE DEMONIAC BOY (Mark 9:14 *, Luke 9:37). The story is much shorter than in Mk. The reference to possession does not come till the end; in Matthew 17:15 the child is described as epileptic...
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION (Matthew 17:1-8)...
THIS KIND. Implying different kinds. See Matthew 12:45. Act 16:17. 1 John 4:1. T Tr. [A] WH. omit this verse; but not the Syriac. BUT. except. PRAYER. Greek. _proseuche._ See App-134....
A Lunatic Child is cured Mark 9:14-29, where the scene and the symptoms of the disease are described with great particularity. Luke 9:37-42....
_this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting_ Those only whose own spiritual life and faith are made strong by self-denial and by communion with God in prayer are able to cast forth this kind of...
A LUNATIC CHILD IS CURED Mark 9:14-29, where the scene and the symptoms of the disease are described with great particularity. Luke 9:37-42....
Here the received text has: τοῦτο δὲ τὸ γένος οὐκ ἐκπορεύεται εἰ μὴ ἐν προσευχῇ καὶ νηστείᾳ. The words are undisputed in the parallel passage, Mark 9:29, with the exception of καὶ νηστείᾳ omitted by T...
VER 19. THEN CAME THE DISCIPLES TO JESUS APART, AND SAID, "WHY COULD NOT WE CAST HIM OUT?" 20. AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, "BECAUSE OF YOUR UNBELIEF: FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, IF YE HAVE FAITH AS A GRA...
_JESUS IN HIS POWER, HEALING MATTHEW 17:14-21:_ Following that heavenly transformation there is an earthly problem for Jesus to deal with. An epileptic, demon possessed boy had been brought to Jesus'...
THIS KIND GOETH NOT OUT, &C.— Prayer and fasting could have no relation to the ejection of demons, but so far only as they had a tendency to increase the faith of miracles in him who had that power fo...
Section 43 JESUS HEALS AND FREES A DEMONIZED BOY (Parallels: Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43 a) TEXT: 17:14-21 14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling to him, and s...
And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Mark 9:14....
28 See 2Pe_1:16-18. 28 This prediction was fulfilled about a week later when He took His most intimate disciples with Him and they saw His power and presence and were spectators of His magnificence (2...
THE TRANSFIGURATION 1-8. The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28). St. Leo rightly apprehended the historical situation when he said that in the Transfiguration the principal object aimed at was tha...
The RV and Westcott and Hort omit the whole v., but it is too strongly attested to be lightly rejected. The parallel in Mk (RV) omits 'and fasting': see on Mark 9:29. 22, 23. JESUS PREDICTS HIS PASSI...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE 17:1-13 V1 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and John (who was James’s brother) with him. He le...
THIS KIND GOETH NOT OUT BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING. — The words imply degrees in the intensity of the forms of evil ascribed to demons amounting to a generic difference. Some might yield before the ene...
_ide_ on Mark 9:29....
_The epileptic boy_ (Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43). Very brief report compared with Mk....
LACK OF FAITH REBUKED Matthew 17:9-21 As Raphael suggests in his great painting, there is a close connection between the mountain and the valley. The glory of the one did not make our Lord indifferen...
"After six days." Days of silence. No record have we of what transpired in those days. The strange declarations of the Cross had crushed the hearts of these men. Now to three of their number, as speci...
(4) Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by (h) prayer and fasting. (4) The remedy against distrust. (h) To help us to understand the watchfulness and diligence of earnest prayer, which cannot be wit...
Jesus then taking the road to Jerusalem with his disciples, and whilst they were in Galilee, which they had to pass through, he spake to them of his suffering, death, and resurrection. (Bible de Vence...
DEMONIACAL EJECTMENT Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43. Mark: _“And having come to His disciples, He saw a great crowd round them, and the scribes arguing with them.”_ He and the three disc...
"And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, (15) Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he fall...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE REASON OF FAILURE_ ‘Because of your unbelief.’ Matthew 17:20 Remember those words of Jesus, which, were they only obeyed, would put an end to our misery and discord, ‘Seek ye first the kingdom...
21._This kind goeth not out_, (492) By this expression Christ reproved the negligence of certain persons, in order to inform them that it was not an ordinary _faith _which was required; for otherwise...
Jesus leads them up into a high mountain, and there is transfigured before them: "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Moses and Elias appeared also, talking with Hi...
HOWBEIT, THIS KIND GOETH NOT OUT,.... The Vulgate Latin renders it, "is not cast out"; and so do the Arabic version, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel; and which confirm the more commonly received sense of...
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. Ver. 21. _This kind goeth not out_] Some devils then are not so potent, political, vile, villanous, as others: so neither are wicked men all...
Mat. 17:21. "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting:" this kind as to the manner of possession and influence. There were dumb devils, and unclean devils, and a spirit of infirmity....
_This kind_ Of devils, _goeth not out but by prayer and fasting_ Joined with an eminent degree of the faith he had been describing. He intended by this to excite them to intercede with God for his mor...
THIS KIND; this kind of evil spirit. The words imply its great power and malice. PRAYER AND FASTING; that faith which was necessary to work such a miracle, could not be obtained without much self-den...
Christ explains the failure:...
HOWBEIT, THIS KIND GOETH NOT OUT BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING. After the healing of the demoniac, Jesus went into a house. And there, where they were by themselves, the disciples gain enough courage to a...
Only six days intervened before the three disciples witnessed the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus. Luke says, "about eight days after these things," for no doubt he counts the day the Lord spoke, an...
14-21 The case of afflicted children should be presented to God by faithful and fervent prayer. Christ cured the child. Though the people were perverse, and Christ was provoked, yet care was taken of...
Ver. 19-21. Mark repeats only what we have here MATTHEW 17:19,21. The reason assigned here by our Saviour why his disciples could not cast out this devil, was their unbelief; not their total want, but...
Matthew 17:21 However G1161 this G5124 kind G1085 not G3756 out G1607 (G5736) except G1508 by G1722 prayer...
THE PROBLEM OF UNBELIEF, THE REASON FOR UNBELIEF, AND THE ONE WHO WILL TRIUMPH THROUGH FAITH (17:14-23). At the commencement of this section we learned of the problem of unbelief (Matthew 13:58) which...
THE REASON FOR THEIR FAILURE (17:19-21). The disciples learn that their failure was due to the lack of quality in their faith. What was needed was the kind of faith that can only be built up by depth...
‘And he says to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Remove hence to yonder place', and it will re...
All three Evangelists place this miracle immediately after the transfiguration (Luke: ‘the next day'). This ‘may be regarded as one of the evidences of the genuineness and authenticity of the narrativ...
Matthew 17:21. The two oldest manuscripts, the best of the later ones (cursives), some very ancient versions, omit this verse, and there are other reasons for doubting its genuineness. If retained: ‘H...
HOWBEIT The two best manuscripts omit verse 21 (Matthew 17:21)....
CONTENTS: The transfiguration of Jesus Christ. The powerless disciples, unable to heal a lunatic, and the mighty Christ. Resurrection again foretold. Miracle of the tribute money. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Matthew 17:2. _He was transfigured before them._ Μεταμορφωθη, was transformed before them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke record this vision; and name the three selected witnesses. Peter had just confessed t...
BUT ONLY PRAYER AND FASTING. Faith reaches out through prayer and fasting to seize the power of Christ (for one who is already a Christian John 9:31). [Do not think of fasting and prayer as a ritual o...
_And when they were come to the multitude._ THE HEALING OF THE LUNATIC CHILD I. The divinely appointed alternations of the Christian life. (Mark 9:2; Mark 9:17). II. Spiritual work can be done only...
JESUS HEALS A DEMON-POSSESSED BOY MATTHEW 17:14-21; MARK 9:14-29; LUKE 9:37-43; MATTHEW 17:14 And when they were come to the mult
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 17:15. LUNATICK.—_Epileptic_ (R.V.). “The child was a possessed epileptic lunatic.” Matthew 17:20. GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED.—See note on Matthew 13:31. The proverbial type of
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 17:1 _The Transfiguration of Jesus_._ _(Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28.) This mysterious event was intended primarily to confirm the faith of the three apostles who were to h
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Matthew chapter seventeen. The seventeenth chapter of Matthew actually begins with the twenty-eighth verse of the sixteenth chapter. It's unfortunate that the men who d...
1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Kings 17:20; 1 Kings 17:21; 2 Corinthians 11:27;...
SEEING CHRIST IN MATTHEW Matthew 17:21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Matthew we have decided to address ourselves to Christ's relationship to His people. For our introduction we will center our thought on...
This kind of devils — goeth not out but by prayer and fasting — What a testimony is here of the efficacy of fasting, when added to fervent prayer! Some kinds of devils the apostles had cast out before...