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Mat 9:20. Γυνὴ, a woman) Eusebius[421] narrates that the statue of this woman and of the Lord healing her was still in existence in his time.-H. E., Bk. vii., c. 17.-ὄπισθεν, from behind) sc. out of modest humility.-τοῦ κρασπέδου, the hem or fringe) See Num 15:38, S. V. Our Lord performed even that part of the law. There is no valid argument from the dress which our Lord then wore to the efficacy of relics.
[421] A celebrated ecclesiastical historian; born about A.D. 267; became Bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine, A.D. 313 or 315; and died A.D. 338 or 340.-(I. B.)