Sunday, October 26, 2008


SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #384

" I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes, And said to him: "Go, wash in the pool of Siloe," which is interpreted, "Sent." He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing. (John 9:4-7)

THE OUTWARD SIGNS OF THE SACRAMENTS: The outward means used by our Lord for the cure of the man born blind, namely the anointing with clay and the washing with water could not, of themselves, have restored his sight. But it was our Lord's almighty will that these ceremonies should by the means by which He gave sight to the blind man. They were types of the outward signs in the Sacraments, which are the means chosen by God for imparting the inward and supernatural graces which are given to us in the holy Sacraments.

[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)

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