Treasury of Scripture
he took.
Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he takes the father and the mother of the damsel...
Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands on him...
1 Kings 17:19-22 And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he stayed...
2 Kings 4:4-6,33,34 And when you are come in, you shall shut the door on you and on your sons, and shall pour out into all those vessels...
John 9:6,7 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay...
put. This was clearly a symbolical action; for these remedies evidently could not, by their natural efficacy, avail to produce so wonderful an effect. As the ears of the deaf appear closed, he applies his fingers to intimate that he would open them; and as the tongue of the dumb seems to be tied, or to cleave to the palate, he touches it, to intimate he would give loose and free motion to it. He accommodated himself to the weakness of those who might not indeed doubt his power, but fancy some external sign was requisite to healing. It was also thus made manifest, that this salutiferous power came from Himself, and that He who by one word, [ephphatha,] had healed the man, must be Divine.
