As he was yet a coming (ετ προσερχομενου αυτου). Genitive absolute. While he was yet coming (the boy, that is, not Jesus). Note qu…

And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

How well it is done, how perfect…

The Venerable Bede: Certain places correspond to certain events. On the mountain our Lord prays, is transfigured, and reveals t…

“The next day” may imply that the Transfiguration happened at night. If so, then that great event would have been even more striking. The descent o…

And as he was yet a coming
Whilst he was in the way bringing to Jesus, before he came to him:

the…

How deplorable the case of this child! He was under the power of an evil spirit. Diseases of that nature are more frightful than those that arise m…