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because he is going for the little daughter who has died. And she did not dare to call him to her house, although she was wealthy; but neither did she approach him publicly, but secretly with faith she touched his garments. For she did not doubt, nor did she say within herself: Shall I be freed from the disease? Shall I not be freed? but having confidence about her health, she approached him thus. For she was saying, it says, within herself: If I only touch his garment, I shall be saved. For she saw from what sort of house he came out, that of the tax collectors, and who were those following, sinners and tax collectors; and all these things made her hopeful. What then did Christ do? He did not let her be hidden, but brings her into the midst and makes her manifest, for many reasons. And yet some of the insensible say, that he did this out of a love for glory. For why, it is said, did he not let her be hidden? What are you saying, O defiled and all-defiled one? The one who commands silence, who passes over countless miracles, does this one love glory? For what reason then does he bring her into the midst? First, he relieves the woman's fear, so that she might not be pricked by her conscience, as if having stolen the gift, and live in agony. Second, he corrects her, since she thought to remain hidden. Third, he displays her faith to all, so that others might also emulate it; and he provides a sign no less than the stopping of the flow of blood, by showing that 57.372 he knows all things. Then, the ruler of the synagogue who was about to disbelieve, and thereby to ruin everything, he sets right through the woman. For those who came said: Do not trouble the Teacher, for the little girl is dead; and those in the house laughed at him when he said, She is sleeping; and it was likely that the father had also experienced something of this sort. 2. For this reason, preemptively correcting this weakness. he brings the woman into the midst. For that he was one of the very dull, listen to what he says to him: Do not be afraid, only believe, and she will be saved. For he deliberately waited for death to come, and to arrive then, so that the proof of the resurrection might be clear. For this reason he also walks more slowly, and speaks at greater length to the woman, in order to allow that one to die, and for those to arrive announcing these things and saying: Do not trouble the Teacher. At any rate, the evangelist, hinting at this, points it out, saying, that While he was still speaking, those came from the house saying: Your daughter is dead, do not trouble the Teacher. For he wished the death to be believed, so that the resurrection might not be suspected. And he does this everywhere. So also in the case of Lazarus, he remained one and a second and a third day. For all these reasons then, he brings her into the midst, and says: Take heart, daughter; just as he also said to the paralytic: Take heart, child. For the woman was very fearful; for this reason he says, Take heart, and calls her daughter; for her faith made her a daughter. Then also the praise: Your faith has saved you. But Luke also reports to us other things beyond these about the woman. For when she had approached, he says, and received her health, Christ did not immediately call her, but first he says: Who is it that touched me? Then when Peter and those with him said: Master, the crowds surround you and press in on you, and you say, Who touched me? (which was a very great sign that he was clothed in true flesh, and trampled all pride underfoot; for they did not follow from afar, but pressed upon him from all sides;) but he himself persisted, he says, saying, Someone touched me; for I perceived power has gone out from me; responding rather crudely to the suspicion of the hearers. But he said these things, in order to persuade her to confess of her own accord. For because of this he did not immediately expose her, so that by showing that he knows all things clearly, he might persuade her to relate everything of her own accord, and might prepare her to proclaim what had happened, and that he might not seem suspect by saying it. Have you seen that the woman was better than the ruler of the synagogue? She did not detain him, she did not hold him back; but she only touched him with the tips of her fingers, and though she came later, she departed healed earlier. And he was leading the whole physician to his house; but for this woman a mere touch was sufficient. For even if she was bound by her suffering, yet in faith she was

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