Matthew 8:6
Douay-Rheims
And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented.
John Chrysostom
(Hom. xxvi.) But some say that he says these things in excuse of himself, as reasons why he did not bring the sick man himself. For it was impossible to bring one in a palsy, in great torment, and at the point to die. But I rather think it a mark of his great faith; inasmuch as he knew that a word alone was enough to restore the sick man, he deemed it superfluous to bring him.
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A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:5-9
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