54. Perchance we may suppose some things were made
impossible for Him by reason of weakness. But He was not weakly
Who could heal the weaknesses of others by His word of authority.
Seemed
He weak when bidding
the paralytic take up his bed and walk? S. Mark ii. 11. He charged the man to perform an
action of which health was the necessary condition, even whilst the
patient was yet praying a remedy for his disease. Not weak was
the Lord of hosts when He gave sight to the blind, Ps. cxlv. 8. made the crooked to stand upright,
raised the dead to life, S.
Matt. xi. 5. anticipated
the effects of medicine at our prayers, and cured them that besought
Him, and when to touch the fringe of His robe was to be
purified. S. Mark vi. 56.