ACC ~ Mark 2 v11

REVERSE YOUR RELATION WITH SICKNESS

PETER CHRYSOLOGUS: Take up your bed. Carry the very mat that once carried you. Change places, so that what was the proof of your sickness may now give testimony to your soundness. Your bed of pain becomes the sign of healing, its very weight the measure of the strength that has been restored to you. HOMILY 50:6. [1]

[1] Cetedoc 0227, 24.50.98; SSGF 4:191**; cf. PL 52:339.

THE CHARGE TO PERFORM AN ACT OF WHICH HEALTH IS A NECESSARY CONDITION

AMBROSE: He charged the man to perform an action of which health was the necessary condition, even while the patient was still praying for a remedy for his disease. … It was our Lord’s custom to require of those whom he healed some response or duty to be done. [1] ON THE CHRISTIAN FAITH 4.8.54-55. [2]

[1] Jn 5:8; 8:11.

[2] Cetedoc 0150, 4.5.37; GMI 48.*

INWARD PARALYSIS

AUGUSTINE: You have been a paralytic inwardly. You did not take charge of your bed. Your bed took charge of you. ON THE PSALMS 41.4. [1]

[1] Cetedoc 0283, 38.40.5.10; NPNF 1 8:129. One can be paralytic inwardly without bodily paralysis.