But that ye may know, that the son of man
Whom the Scribes and Pharisees took for a mere man, in which they
were mistaken; for though he was really a man, and the son of
man, yet he was God as well as man; he was God manifest in the
flesh:
hath power upon earth to forgive sins;
even in the days of his flesh, whilst he was in his humble form
on earth; for he did not cease to be God by becoming man, nor
lose any branch of his power, not this of forgiving sin, by
appearing in the form of a servant; and, that it might be
manifest,
he said unto the sick of the palsy:
these are the words of the evangelist, signifying, that Christ
turned himself from the Scribes and Pharisees to the paralytic
man, and thus addressed him: I say unto thee, arise, and
take up thy couch, and go into thine
house.
