the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Romanian Cornilescu Translation
Luca 8:46
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
for: Luke 6:19, 1 Peter 2:9, *marg.
Reciprocal: Mark 5:30 - virtue Luke 5:17 - power
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Jesus said, somebody hath touched me,.... Not in a common and accidental way, but with design, and in the strength of faith:
for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me: for the cure of the person that had touched him, and that not without his knowledge and will; :-.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 9:18-26, and Mark 5:21-43.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 46. I perceive that virtue — δυναμιν, Divine or miraculous power. This Divine emanation did not proceed always from Christ, as necessarily as odours do from plants, for then all who touched him must have been equally partakers of it. Of the many that touched him, this woman and none else received this Divine virtue; and why? Because she came in faith. Faith alone attracts and receives the energetic influence of God at all times. There would be more miracles, at least of spiritual healing, were there more faith among those who are called believers.