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The Gospel According to St. Mark, With Notes Critical and Practical by M.f. Sadler
The Gospel According to St Mark With Notes Critical and Practical by Mf Sadler Author:Mark General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Chap. III.] A MAN WITH A WITHERED HAND. 43 CHAP. HI. AND a he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. a Mutt. xii. 9. 2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day ; that they might accuse him. 1. " Had a withered hand." Better, " Had his hand withered." 1. "And he entered again into [the] synagogue . . . withered hand." This narrative very fitly follows up the teaching of what has just preceded it; for, in the last verses of the former chapter, the Lord vindicates the lawfulness of works of necessity on the Sabbath -- now He claims for Himself (and if for Himself, for His Church) the right of doing works of mercy on the same day. But He does more than this: He seems to teach us that works of healing and restoration are very appropriate to the holy festival; for it might have been supposed, even by those who were not Pharisees, that such a work as follows might have been postponed -- that the man might have been bid to come to Christ on some other day, but the Lord does not put off the act of mercy on account of the day. He took into account that the healing of the man on the spot was saving him one day of discomfort and loss of means of livelihood, and so He delayed not a single hour. " A man there which had a withered hand," or rather had his hand withered, intimating that the man was not born with the defect. The Gospel according to the Hebrews, or Nazarenes, quoted in Jerome, represented him as saying: " I was a mason seeking sustenance by my hands : I beseech thee, Jesus, that Thou restore me health that I may not shamefull...« less