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made/' &c. He then shows hj a quotation from Augustine, how all the created heings in existence, whether kings, or angels, or seraphims, cannot create so much as an ant. But when God says, " Let the world he made," at ouce it is made hy a word. And he concludes, " Well therefore does the Centurion say, * say in a word only, and my servant shall he healed.' "
— [He marvelled at him.'] There are two occasions where it is recorded that our Lord Jesus Christ " marvelled," once in this history, and once in Mark vi. 6. It is remarkahle that in one case He is descrihed as marvelling at " faith," and in the other as marvelling at ** unbelief." Bishop Hall, and Burkitt after him, both observe, " What can be more wonderful than to see Christ wonder ? "
The expression is one of those which show the reality of our Lord's human nature. He was made like unto us in all things, sin only excepted. As man He grew in wisdom and stature. As man He hungered, thirsted, was weary, ate, drank, slept, wept, son'owed, rejoiced, groaned, agonized, bled, suffered and died. And so also as man He wondered. Yet all this time He was very and eternal God, one with the Father, and the Saviour of the world. This is a great mystery, and one which we cannot fathom. The union of two natures in one Person, is a thing passing our weak comprehension. We must believe and admire, without attempting to define or explain.
In the case in Mark the marvelling is evidently a marvelling of sorrow. In the case before us it is a marvelling of admira- tion. Burkitt remarks, ** Let it teach us to place our admiration where Christ placed His. Let us be more affected with the least measure of grace in a good man, than with all the gaieties and glories of a great man." Our Lord be it remembered, did not marvel at the gorgeous and beautiful buildings of the Jewish temple. But he did marvel at faith.