CHAPTER 5 1 _Christ delivereth the possessed of the legion of devils_, 13 _they enter into the swine_. 25 H _e healeth the woman of the bloody issue_, 35 _and raiseth from death Jairus his daughter. _ VER. 7. _I adjure thee by God._ Because the devil knew that Christ would grant nothing to his praye... [ Continue Reading ]
_For she said, If I shall touch but His garment, I shall be whole._ Matthew (Matthew 9:20), instead of _garment_, has _the hem of His garment._ This _hem_ was a fringe of threads attached to the bottom of the robe, of a hyacinth or violet colour, which God commanded the Jews to wear, that it might p... [ Continue Reading ]
_But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth. Fearing and trembling_, not because she had been guilty of an act of superstition, as Calvin would have it, but because she had approached secretly, and, unclean, had touche... [ Continue Reading ]
_The damsel is not dead_, _but sleepeth._ For although she is really dead, yet she shall be forthwith awakened by Me from death as from sleep. Or, as the Scholiast in S. Jerome says, "To you she is dead, to Me she sleepeth." _Talitha cumi._ In Hebrew a boy is called _ieled_, for which the Syrians a... [ Continue Reading ]
_And commanded that something should be given her to eat_, that He might show that she not only had arisen, but was in good health and hungry. For boys and girls are wont, when they awake out of sleep, if they are well and strong, to ask for food. And death was to her in the place of sleep, as Chris... [ Continue Reading ]