ACC ~ Mark 5 v34a

WHETHER PROXIMITY ELICITS FAITH

AUGUSTINE: Few are they who by faith touch him; multitudes are they who throng about him. [1] SERMON 62.4. [2]

[1] HE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL | MARK 1:1-5

[2] Cetedoc 0284, 62.38.416.48; GMI 111.

TOUCHING IN DOUBT

BEDE: Some “seeing see not, and hearing do not hear.” [1] So also some who touch, touch not, when they approach the Lord not in simplicity of soul, but in doubt or in duplicity. EXPOSITION ON THE GOSPEL OF MARK 2.5. [2]

[1] Mt 13:13.

[2] Cetedoc 1355, 2.5.360; GMI 111*; cf. WSA 3 3:158. It was not the mere manual touching of the Lord itself that healed but touching the Lord in simplicity of soul.