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Mat 13:54.[652] Σοφία, wisdom-δυνάμεις, mighty works) supernatural powers: See 1Co 1:24. We ought to be carried forward, by admiration of the teaching and works of our Lord, to a believing (fidelem) recognition of His person; otherwise admiration ends in stupor.
[652] Εἰς τὴν πατρίδα αὐτοῦ) In the same way as He had gone forth into public, in a manner which was clearly “His custom,” at Nazareth, Luk 4:16 : so, having left Capernaum, He returned afresh to Nazareth. It was then that the people of Nazareth said those things which He had foretold in Luk 4:23 they would say. [See Gnomon there: where Beng. explains, “Ye will say,” etc., thus: This feeling, owing to which ye say (Mat 13:22), Is not this Joseph’s Son? will wax stronger, when ye shall hear of my future miracles, which, owing to your unbelief, shall be less numerous among you than others: You will then say, Physician, heal thyself.-ED.]-Harm., l. cit.