And he arose, and departed to his own house.

It may be regarded as an enacted parable of sin and redemption. The paralytic typifies the sinner, by his original helplessness, (Isaiah 40:30; John 6:44; John 15:5 ;) faith, by his earnestness to come to Christ in spite of obstacle, (Psalms 25:15; Psalms 86:2; Psalms 86:7 ;). common Christian experience, by the delay be suffers between his repentance and faith, and his cure, (James 5:7-8 ;) and the power of divine grace, in the ability to obey Christ's command, received in the very attempt to comply with it. Philippians 4:13.-- Abbott.

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