Matthew 8:9

For. am. man under authority, having soldiers under me.

The meaning is: "I know how to obey, being myself under authority, and in turn know how others obey, having soldiers under me." The inference is: "If. then, in my subordinate station of command, am obeyed, how much more thou, who art over all, and whom diseases serve as their master."-- Alford. "His view of the relation of Christ to the spiritual kingdom is as original as it is grand. The Lord appears to him to be the true Cæsar and Imperator, the highest over the hierarchy, not of earth but of heaven."-- Trench. He believes that all things, the powers of nature, disease and spirits obey the Lord as promptly and absolutely as the soldiers under him obey his own command. As he could say " Go " to. soldier or. servant and it was at once obeyed, so Jesus could say "Go" to the disease and it would obey him.