OUR LORD'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SICKNESS
By W. Yorke Fausset, M.A.
(1) Men are commonly influenced by actions
and personal example much more powerfully
than by abstract teaching; and the Christian
tradition conforms to this principle in placing
the three Synoptic Gospels in the forefront
of the New Testament. For they set before
us the mind of Christ in the words and acts of
Jesus. Thus when the thoughtful Christian is
asked, 'What is the Gospel view of disease?'
he will be inclined to reply, 'The question is a
difficult one, but we may say with some confidence
that our Lord answered it by His
miracles of healing.' A study of these and
of their underlying principles may help us
towards the definition we seek.
The records are fragmentary. Yet they are warm with living realism. The great facts of our Faith stand out before us in the moving drama of the Synoptic Gospels,[1] just as truly as
- ↑ Euseb. H. E. vi. 14. 7. So called first by Clement of Alexandria.
