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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Toward evening on the Sabbath, as was customary, the Lord went to the house of the disciples to take a meal. Meanwhile, she who was supposed to serve on this occasion was seized with a fever. But the Lord heals her, and she begins to serve them. These words let you know that you too, when God heals you from illness, should use your health for serving the saints and for pleasing God.
Western Saints
Bede
And immediately, leaving the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon, etc. If we have said that the man freed from the demon signifies a mind cleansed from impure thoughts, consequently a woman afflicted with fever but cured by the command of the Lord shows the flesh restrained from the fervor of its concupiscence by the precepts of continence. For all bitterness, and wrath, and indignation, and clamor, and blasphemy (Ephesians IV), is the fury of an unclean spirit. …
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