Mat 9:23-26, Mar 5:35-43, Luk 8:41-43 | TSK | STEP

he taketh.He took just so many as prudence required, and as were sufficient to prove the reality of the cure; to have permitted the presence of more, might have savoured of ostentation.

took.

1:31; Ac 9:40,41

Talitha cumi.[Talitha cumi;] which is pure Syriac, the same as in the Syriac version, the proper translation of which is given by the evangelist.

Damsel.

1:41; Ge 1:3; Ps 33:9; Lu 7:14,15; 8:54,55; Joh 5:28,29; 11:43,44

Ro 4:17; Php 3:21

1:27; 4:41; 6:51; 7:37; Ac 3:10-13

he charged.

1:43; 3:12; 7:36; Mt 8:4; 9:30; 12:16-18; 17:9; Lu 5:14; 8:56; Joh 5:41

and commanded.This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: {Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit.} "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." To act otherwise would be to tempt God.

Given.

Lu 24:30,42,43; Ac 10:41