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JESUS AID THE SICK.
FOURTH LESSON OF THE INTERNA*
TIONAL S. S. SERIES, JAN. 22, 1828.
Comments by Rev. William Newfou,
D. D.—Text of Lesson, Matt, xv, 81-31,
Golden Text, James v, 13—Memorize
Verses 27-30.
IFrom Lesson Helper Quarterly, by permission
of H. S. Hoffman, Philadelphia, publisher. 1
Notes.—Thence, i. e., from the plac<
where he replied to the Pharisees from
Jerasalem. Tyre a celebrated city ol
Phenicia, on the eastern coast of the Medi«
terranean sea twenty-one miles from Sidon.
It was a great city in the time of Joshua,
1444 B. C. Sidon, probably the oldest city
in the world. It was named al ter the graifb
son of Noah, 2218 B. C. Gen. x, 15. Canaan,
a descendant of original inhaeiu.nts of the
land. Son of David, prophetic Like of the
Messiah.
V. 21. It is an easy, yet a sad and touching
thing to see Jesus on his way to Tyre and
Sidon. Why does he go there? Why doe.i
he turn his back on his own country and gu
to the Gentiles? Is not the reason plain? Did
not this deputation of Pharisees from Jerusa¬
lem, now offended at his doctrine and their
own manifest discomfiture, mean an accuse.
tion against him for heresy before the San¬
hedrim? And his hour was not yet come.
And so we see him on his lonely way. His
own country* closing itself against him, and
he waiting for his decease, which he should
accomplish at Jerasalem.
V. 22. Some of the people of the land had
remained here since the time of Joshua, and
this woman was one of their descendants.
And in her case, we notice
L The tenderness of her appeal, Sho
identifies herself completely with her daugh
ter. “Have mercy upon me!” For she was
bound up with her child, and the merey* ex
tended to her would tell first upon herself.
2. The title by which she addressed him,
“Thou Sou of David.” And what right had
she to this? In one sense, none. In another,
the highest and fullest. For, had she not
great need? Had not he abundant means of
supply? And faith assured her that was the
most sacred claim. And
3. Tlie case presented for relief. Wo do
not know the special form of this possession,
for there were divers forms of them. But
she was “grievously vexed” by it, and her
mother’s heart yearned for her relief. And
how does he receive her?
like V. 23. lie.answered her nothing. Was this
him? Bid it tell of his gentle ministry,
who would not break the braised reed nor
quench the smoking flax? Just at that point
it did not. Just at that point it rather
showed him to be cold, hard, unsympathiz
ing. But is it much to believe Ae that, us lie
treated no two cases alike, so saw iuuvocy
case the reasons that determines! his iwodh vt
treating it? Did* heinot see such reasons in
this case? And did he not seek thus to show
her what her faith could do, and thus to
strengthen it?
V. 24. These words seem like a still far¬
ther repudiation of her claim. lie was not
sent to her, i. e., not primarily to her. “To
the Jew iirst” is the order of the divine man
ifestation. Did she know of this, “and also
to the Gentiles?” 'Alas! who was to teach it
to her ? Not the Jews, for they did not be
lieve it. Not the Gentiles, for they did not
know it. Only the Divine Spirit couid have
wrought this faith in her.
V. 25. There seems to have been a gather
ing of all her powers of unyielding resolve,
a#, on hearing these chilling words, she came,
and throwing herself down before him cried
out: “Lord, help me!” She would not be do*
nild.
V. 2G-27. The trying of her frith was not
yet ended. Indeed, he seemed harder and
colder and sterner still, What right had she
to the children’s bread ' Was it right to
take it from them and east it to the dogs 1
Now this might seem Like a most unfeeling
rebuff. In one point of view it was so. But in
another it was just the medium through
which her deeply* tried faith was to shino
gloriously forth. And so it was to her. It
was all just as he said. And she asked for
no more than the privilege accorded to the
little dogs, i. «... that of gathering up the
crumbs that fell > rom the masters table.
V. 28. Ilcr 1 ..ih triumphed. She had
reached the p . ho leant her to gain,
Forth from (. m lips burst the
graciously appro vie .oris: “O woman,
great u thy la;, ii: Lei. unto thee even as
thou will'.”
V. 2*.). Had Jesus now accomplished the
real end and purpose of his visit to the coast
of Tyre a:ri Sidon? Was tho relief of this
troubled o.;c his real objective [»oint—as Ills'
teaching well, of that banigkiei one by* Jacob's
was the reason wav “lie must ne~ds
na*s tlirotjgH i Hhmaria f ’ John iv; 4. But his
JJJy T * -
end was gained; his enemies were thrown off
their pursuit, and he must by slow degrees,
return to his own people. Accordingly, ho
J | departed the Jordan, thence; and passed again round to the the sources eastern of
came
, shore of the sea. Here again he withdrew
himself from observation, by going up into a
mountain, but he could not lie hid.
V. 30-31. The news of his coming soon
spread. Every one had something to tell of I
V the great teacher, and his wondrous words
works. And the result was »xm mani
,£ost. From all parts of the country round
about, they brought unto him their sick,
Let us note the lessons the nurrutive may
teach us.
1. Manifestly two opposing powers are
hero—one of sickness, one of health. One of
blight, the other of blessing. One of death
and the other of life. For all the different
forms of disease uro only messe ngers ill ud
vance of death. They all mean death. That
is the word they spell out, when written in
full. Clearly, therefore, they ure ms the
master put, “the power of the enemy.” They
are fruits on the tree of humanity, from the
j blight of sin. So we say that every form of
bodily ailment is the work of sin, and there¬
fore of broken luws. This was on one side.
What on the other ?
The very antagonism of all this—i. e., Jesus,
as the healer of sin, commencing his course
by healing sickness. And he himself tells ua,
we may know that he has j lower to do the
flint, because he did the second. Every act
of healing, therefore, was,ft sign of what he
came to do. It showed to men the presence
of one who could deal with unseen cause and
so put awuy the visible result. It told too of
the coming day, when his work shyuld bo
fully unfolded.
GENERAL I.IHSON8.
1. Had Jesus been condemned by the coun¬
cil for heresy, he would, like Stephen, have
been stoned. But it was written of him that
he should hang on the tree, as the heart r ol
our sin, and thus become a curse in our *Vad.
And so he quietly withdrew from the jxiwet
of his enemies until the time when the chit 4
iriests should deliver him to the Gentiles, ano
he be adjudged to the cross.
2. Love alway s makes the suffe rings of th*
love«l one its own. This Canaanitish woman’*
I'er orayer was, “Lord, help me;' while it was
daughter that needed help. Yet did not
she feel that daughter's .suffermgs more keen*
lv than that daughter l*»*rseif? I Even so the
hol’d Jesus in his glory felt os done to hint
self, the persecution which Saul was duvet
ing against bis people. He makes their eiua t
his own.
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