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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Therefore not only he, but all the others also who "opposed Jesus were put to shame" by such words of His. For it was very foolish to forbid the healing of a person on the Sabbath on the grounds that inactivity was supposedly prescribed on the Sabbath. So those who opposed Jesus were ashamed of these words of His, while "the people rejoiced at... His deeds." Whereas they did not rejoice at His deeds but were consumed with envy at the miracles of Christ, the people, benefiting from the signs and receiving the healings, rejoiced. …
Irenaeus
And not only in the case of this woman have the years of her infirmity (which they affirm to fit in with their figment) been mentioned, but, lo! another woman was also healed, after suffering in like manner for eighteen years; concerning whom the Lord said, "And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound during eighteen years, to be set free on the Sabbath-day?" If, then, the former was a type of the twelfth Aeon that suffered, the latter should also be a type of the eighteenth Aeon in suffering. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
The whole human race, like this woman, was bent over and bowed down to the ground. Someone already understands these enemies. He cries out against them and says to God, "They have bowed my soul down." The devil and his angels have bowed the souls of men and women down to the ground. …
Bede
And should not this daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound for eighteen years long, be set free from this bondage on the Sabbath day? The daughter of Abraham is any faithful soul, the daughter of Abraham is the Church gathered from both peoples into the unity of faith, which, after the time of the law and the fulfillment of the Lord's resurrection, through the sevenfold grace of the Holy Spirit, broke the bonds of long captivity. …
Bonaventure
Second, drawing out a rational argument, he adds: But this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, for eighteen years, to whom mercy is owed, both because she is a woman, weak by her sex; 1 Peter 3: "Bestowing honor as on the weaker, feminine vessel"; and because she is weak from the oppression of the devil: whence Matthew 15: "Have mercy on me, Son of David, for my daughter is grievously vexed by a devil"; because she was also of the seed of Abraham, whom God had chosen for himself: whence Matthew 15: "I was not sent except …
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