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Anselm
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 8
Mt 8, Verses 14–15English original
And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and siek of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
Matthew having in the leper shewn the healing of the whole human race, and in the centurion’s servant that of the Gentiles, now figures the healing of the synagogue in Peter’s mother-in-law. He relates the case of the servant, first, because it was the greater miracle, and the grace was greater in the conversion of the Gentile; or because the synagogue should not be fully converted till the end of the age when the fulness of the Gentiles should have entered in. Peter’s house was in Bethsaida.