Matthew 17:18 (WEB)
Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Matthew goes on in the following terms: “And when He was come to the multitude, there came to Him a certain man, kneeling down before Him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic, and sore vexed;” and so on, down to the words, “Howbeit this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.”” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 14–20.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
Peter, anxious for such desirable life, and preferring his own benefit to that of many, had said, “It is good for us to be here.” But since charity seeks not her own, Jesus did not this which seemed good to Peter,…
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is to be noted, that were not man fortified here by Providence, he would long since have perished; for the daemon who cast him into the fire, and into the water, would have killed him outright, had God not restrained…
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In saying, “And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not heal him,” he covertly accuses the Apostles, whereas that a cure is impossible is sometimes the effect not of want of power in those that undertake…
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See herein also his folly, in that before the multitude he appeals to Jesus against His disciples. But He clears them from shame, imputing their failure to the patient himself; for many things shew that he was weak…
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It may be known also, that not now for the first time, but of a long time, the Lord had borne the Jews’ stubbornness, whence He says, “How long shall I suffer you?” because I have now a long while endured your…
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Or; Because the disciples could not heal him as being weak in faith, He said to them, “O faithless generation,” adding “perverse,” to shew that their perverseness had introduced evil beyond their nature. But I…
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Not that we must think that He was overcome by weariness of them, and that The meek and gentle broke out into words of wrath, but as a physician who might see the sick man acting against his injunctions, would say,…
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When He had vindicated His disciples, He leads the boy’s father to a cheering hope of believing that he shall be delivered out of this evil; and that the father might be led to believe the miracle that was coming,…
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He rebuked him, that is, not the sufferer, but the daemon.
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In which deed He left an example to preachers to attack sins, but to assist men.
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Or, His reproof was to the child, because for his sins he had been seized on by the daemon.
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The lunatic is figuratively one who is hurried into fresh vices every hour, one while is cast into the fire, with which the hearts of the adulterers burn [margin note: Hos 7:4,6]; or again into the waters of…
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Or the fire pertains to anger, which aims upwards, water to the lusts of the flesh.
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Of the changefulness of the sinner it is said, “The fool changes as the moon.” [Eccl 27:12] We may see sometimes that an impulse towards good works comes over such, when, lo! again as by a sudden seizure of a spirit…
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