much of His time in healing the bodies of the sick, how natural the suggestion that the miracles of healing were partly the artless expression by kind deeds of unutterable compassion, and partly a method of action deliberately resolved on with intent to gain men’s confidence for higher ends! Is not the former part of the suggestion, at least, borne out by those words of the evangelist, in which the miraculous cures wrought by Jesus are represented as a fulfilment of the prophetic oracle, ‘Himself
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