26. And had suffered many things of many physicians--The expression
perhaps does not necessarily refer to the suffering she endured under
medical treatment, but to the much varied treatment which she underwent.
and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather
grew worse--pitiable case, and affectingly aggravated; emblem of our
natural state as fallen creatures
(Eze 16:5, 6),
and illustrating the worse than vanity of all human remedies for
spiritual maladies
(Ho 5:13).
The higher design of all our Lord's miracles of healing irresistibly
suggests this way of viewing the present case, the propriety of which
will still more appear as we proceed.
JFB.
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