10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.



Ver. 10. As many as had plagues] Gr. ìáóôéãáò , stripes, scourgings. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth with lesser and lighter afflictions, and scourgeth every son, &c., with hard and heavy judgments, as plagues, banishments, persecutions. Oh, the bloody wales that God hath left on the back of his best children! Heb_12:6. Non vulgares morbi sed saeviores, et inustulati, qui quasi clamitant de ira et poena divina.