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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." Not touched the wearer only and so were healed, but also receiving them, they laid them upon the sick and so healed them. "He that believeth on Me," saith Christ, "doeth greater works than those which I do." This, and the miracle of the shadows is what He meant in those words. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Not only at the time when Paul wore "handkerchiefs and aprons" did people touch them, but they also took them away and laid them on the sick. But pay attention to the hardness of heart of the Jews. They were not moved by the fact that the garments of Christ's disciples produced miracles, even though the miracles from the handkerchiefs and aprons and from the shadows of the disciples are greater than those miracles which Christ performed. …
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