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13.  Jesus then means according to the Hebrew “Saviour,” but in the Greek tongue “The Healer;” since He is physician of souls and bodies, curer of spirits, curing the blind in body τυφλῶν αἰσθητῶν., and leading minds into light, healing the visibly lame, and guiding sinners’ steps to repentance, saying to the palsied, Sin no more, and, Take up thy bed and walk John v. 14, 8..  For since the body was palsied for the sin of the soul, He ministered first to the soul that He might extend the healing to the body.  If, therefore, any one is suffering in soul from sins, there is the Physician for him:  and if any one here is of little faith, let him say to Him, Help Thou mine unbelief Mark ix. 24..  If any is encompassed also with bodily ailments, let him not be faithless, but let him draw nigh; for to such diseases also Jesus ministers Compare the fragment of the Apology of Quadratus presented to Hadrian 127 a.d., preserved by Eusebius (H.E. IV. iii.):  “But the works of our Saviour were always present, for they were genuine:—those that were healed, and those that arose from the dead, who were seen not only when they were healed and when they were raised, but were also always present; and not merely while the Saviour was on earth, but also after His death they were alive for a long while, so that some of them survived even to our times.”  See the notes on the passage of Eusebius, in this series., and let him learn that Jesus is the Christ.

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