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Jerome, on Matt 9:1
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
Matt 9:1 · Douay-Rheims
“And entering into a boat, he passed over the water and came into his own city.”
On this verse:
“O wonderful humility! This man feeble and despised, crippled in every limb, He addresses as son. The Jewish Priests did not deign to touch him. Even therefore His son, because his sins were forgiven him. Hence we may learn that diseases are often the punishment of sin; and therefore perhaps his sins are forgiven him, that when the cause of his disease has been first removed, health may be restored.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.