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Mat_9:22. Jesus immediately (see on Mat_9:4) perceives her object and her faith, and affectionately ( θύγατερ , as a term of address, like τέκνον , Mat_9:2, occurs nowhere else in the New Testament) intimates to her that ἡ πίστις σοῦ σέσωκέ σε , on account of thy faith thou art saved (healed)! The perfect describes what is going to happen directly and immediately, as if it were something already taking place. See Kühner, ii. 1, p. 129. Comp. Mar_10:52, Luk_18:42, and the counterpart of this among tragic poets, as in ὄλωλα , τέθνηκα , and such like. The cure, according to Matthew, was effected by an exercise of Jesus’ will, which responds to the woman’s faith in His miraculous power, not through the mere touching of the garment (in answer to Strauss). The result was instantaneous and complete. To try to account for the miraclo by the influence of fear (Ammon), religious excitement (Schenkel), a powerful hope quickening the inactive organs (Keim), is not sufficiently in keeping with the well authenticated result, and is inadequate to the removal of so inveterate a malady (the twelve years’ duration of which must indeed be ascribed to legend).
ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρ . ἐκ .] not equivalent to ἐν τῇ ὥρ ἐκ . (Mat_8:14), but the thing begins to take place from that hour onward. Comp. Mat_15:28, Mat_17:18. Ἀπό and ἐν therefore express the same result, the instantaneous cure, in forms differing according to the manner in which the thing is conceived.
According to Eusebius, H. E. vii. 17, the woman’s name was Veronica (Evang. Nicod. in Thilo, I. p. 561), and a Gentile belonging to Paneas, where she erected a statue to Jesus. However, see Robinson, neuere Forsch. p. 537.