4. Christ made use of this mystery in the Gospel,
as we read, when He healed him who was deaf and dumb. But He
touched the mouth, because he who was healed was dumb and was a man, as
regards one point that he might open his mouth with the sound of the
voice given to him; as regards the other point because that touch was
seemly towards a man, but would have been unseemly towards a
woman.