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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"For when He was come down from the mountain, there came a leper, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." Great was the understanding and the faith of him who so drew near. For he did not interrupt the teaching, nor break through the auditory, but awaited the proper time, and approaches Him "when He is come down." And not at random, but with much earnestness, and at His knees, he beseeches Him, as another evangelist saith, and with the genuine faith and right opinion about him. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Lord, if you will, you can cleanse me. He who asks for the will, does not doubt about the power.
Bede
Should any be perplexed how, when the Lord seems here to approve Moses' offering, the Church does not receive it, let him remember, that Christ had not yet offered His body for a holocaust. And it behoved that the typical sacrifices should not be taken away, before that which they typified was established by the testimony of the Apostles' preaching, and by the faith of the people believing. …
Thomas Aquinas
Secondly, the infirm man is introduced, and two things are done: first, the infirmity is named; secondly, concern is showed. The infirmity is leprosy, which signifies spiritual infirmities. For some infirmities are within, as fevers; but some, even though from within, show outward symptoms, as leprosy. Therefore, that leper is one whose evil will is manifested by an evil act: "We regarded him as a leper" (Is 58:4). But why does Luke (4:31) say that when he came to Capernaum, he cleansed the leper? …
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