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Mat 9:8. Ἐξουσίαν τοιαύτην, such authority) sc. to heal and save (see Mat 9:6), and that close at hand in the man Jesus Christ.-τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, to men) so long afflicted with sin.[400] An expansive expression (lata oratio), as in Mat 9:6.[401] They rejoiced that there was one of the human race endued with this authority.
[400] A Dativus Commodi.-V. g. i.e. for the good of men.-ED.
[401] Beng seems to me, not to take ἀνθρώποις as Engl. V., “God who had given such power to men,” but, as the Dative of advantage, “Who had bestowed such power (in the person of the man Christ Jesus) for the benefit of men, so long afflicted as they had been with sin. Thus the meaning of Bengel’s “lata oratio, uti v. 6” is, that the words “on earth,” in Mat 9:6, imply the same wide range of the Saviour’s power for the good of men as ἀνθρώποις here.-ED.