Healing the lame and the blind on the mountain (Notes)

Saint Matthew - Chapter 15

Healing the lame and the blind on the mountain. J-J Tissot.

[29] Et cum transisset inde Jesus, venit secus mare Galilaeae : et ascendens in montem, sedebat ibi.
And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea of Galilee. And going up into a mountain, he sat there.

And when Jesus had passed over, &c. As S. Jerome says, “He went up into a mountain, that, like a bird, He might stir up His tender young ones to fly.” And Rabanus: “That He might lift up His hearers to meditate upon supernal and heavenly things. He sat down, that He might show rest is only to be sought for in things above.”

[30] Et accesserunt ad eum turbae multae, habentes secum mutos, caecos, claudos, debiles, et alios multos : et projecerunt eos ad pedes ejus, et curavit eos,
And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:

And there came to Him, &c. The Gloss explains mystically thus—“The dumb are those who do not praise God. The blind are those who do not understand the way of life. The lame are those who do not go along the straight road of good works.” Excellently says blessed Peter Chrysologus (Serm. 50): “Christ came to take our infirmities, and to give us His strength; to seek things human, to give things divine; to receive injuries, to confer dignities; to bear wearisomeness, to bestow healing. For the physician, who does not bear with infirmities, knows not how to heal. And he who is not weak with the weak, cannot make the weak strong.”

[31] ita ut turbae mirarentur, videntes mutos loquentes, claudos ambulantes, caecos videntes : et magnificabant Deum Israel.
So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

They glorified the God of Israel, because He had shown unto them Messias, the worker of so many blessings and miracles.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam