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Mat 8:8. Στέγην, roof) Although not a mean one, cf. Luk 7:5. There were others whose reverence did not prevent them from seeing and touching the Lord, see ch. Mat 9:18; Mat 9:20. The same internal feeling may manifest itself outwardly in different modes, yet all of them good.-εἰπὲ λόγῳ, command by word) Thus does the centurion declare his belief that the disease will yield to our Lord’s command. Some few copies have rather more carelessly,εἰπὲ λόγον,[358] say the word.-ἰαθήσεται, shall be healed) The centurion replies by this glorious word: our Lord had said modestly, θεραπεύσω,” I will cure.[359]-ὁ παῖς μου, my boy) A kinder mode of speech than if he had said ὁ δουλός μου, my slave.
[358] BCbc Orig. 4,278d and Vulg. read λόγῳ. Rec. Text, without good authority, has λόγον.-ED.
[359] The word used by the centurion was confined to the notion of healing, and cognate with that which denoted a physician: that employed by our Lord had also the signification of attending upon, and was cognate with one which denoted an attendant. Bengel’s remark applies not to our Lord’s meaning, but to the mode in which He expressed it.-(I. B.)