ACC ~ Luke 5 v12 - 13

JESUS DEMONSTRATES HIS DIVINITY AND HUMANITY

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: He accepts his petition and confesses that he is able and says, “I will; be cleansed.” He grants him also the touch of his holy and all-powerful hand. Immediately the leprosy departed from him, and his affliction was ended. Join with me, therefore, in adoring Christ, thus exercising at the same time both a divine and a bodily power. For it was a divine act so to will as for all that he willed to be present unto him. To stretch out the hand, however, was a human act. Christ, therefore, is perceived to be One of both, if, as is the case, the Word was made flesh. COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 12. [1]

[1] CGSL 106**.

JESUS CANNOT BE DEFILED

EPHREM THE SYRIAN: Go, show yourself. [1] This was for the sake of the priests. For the leper was afraid to touch him lest he defile him. But the Lord touched him to show him that he would not be defiled, he, at whose rebuke the defilement fled from the defiled one. COMMENTARY ON TATIAN’S DIATESSARON 12.21. [2]

[1] Mt 8:4.

[2] ECTD 201**.