Wherefore upon the whole, this salutary virtue of the water, which might be medicinal by nature, seems to be so regulated by God, as at the same time to afford the jews a token of his presence. But the power of Christ, administered to this infirm man, a more noble remedy than that water, his evil-chasing[103] word. And this power was the more seasonable in this case, because the disease was of so many years standing, that it could not be removed by a natural remedy: whence his divine virtue shone forth the more brightly.
FOOTNOTES:
[91] See Matthew, Chap. viii. and ix., and John, Chap. v.
[92] See Cotovici Itinerarium Hierosolymitarum, Lib. ii. Cap. ii. and Maundrell’s Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, 8vo. p. 107. Oxford 1714.
[93] Onomasticon urbium & locorum sacræ scripturæ, in voce Βηζαϑά.
[94] Lib. iii. Cap. xxvii.
[95] Lib. xxxi. §. 32.
[96] Ib. §. ii.
[97] Ib. §. 19.
[98] De Dea Syria.