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Mat_8:9. Καὶ … ἐξουσίαν ] ἀπὸ τοῦ καθʼ ἑαυτὸν ὑποδείγματος κατασκευάζει , ὅτι καὶ λόγῳ μόνῳ δύναται , Euth. Zigabenus. Ἄνθρ . ὑπὸ ἐξ . go together (in answer to Fritzsche). The connecting of this substantive with ἔχων , etc., serves to indicate at once his own obedience and that which he exacts and receives from others. It is quite gratuitous to suppose that the centurion regards the disease as caused by demons that are compelled to yield to the behests of Jesus (Fritzsche, Ewald); and it is equally so to impute to him the belief that the duty of carrying out those behests is entrusted to angels (Erasmus, Wetstein, Olshausen, Baumgarten-Crusius). From the context it simply appears that he looked upon diseases as subject to Christ’s authority, and therefore ready to disappear whenever He ordered them to do so (Theophylact, Euth. Zigabenus, Bengel, de Wette). It is thus that he commands the fever in Luk_4:39, and it ceases. Observe with Bengel the “sapientia fidelis ex ruditate militari pulchre elucens.” His inference is a case of reasoning a minori ad majus.