27. There are some things of
this sort even of our Saviour in the Gospel, because the Lord of
the Prophets deigned to be Himself also a Prophet. Such are those
where, concerning the woman which had an issue of blood, He said,
“Who touched Me?”2431
and of
Lazarus. “Where have ye
laid him?”
2432
He asked,
namely, as if not knowing that which in any
wise He knew. And He
did on this account
feign that He knew not, that He might signify
somewhat else by that His seeming ignorance: and since this
signification was truthful, it was assuredly not a
lie. For those
were signified, whether by her which had the issue, or by him which
had been four days dead, whom even He Who knew all things did in a
certain sort know not. For both she bore the type of the people of
the Gentiles, whereof the
prophecy had gone before, “A people
whom I have not known hath served Me:”
2433
and
Lazarus, removed from the
living, did as it were in that place lie in significative
similitude where He lay, Whose voice that is, “I am cast out of
the sight of thine eyes.”
2434
And with that intent, as though it
were not known by Christ, both who she was and where he was laid,
by His words of interrogating a figure was enacted and by truthful
signification all lying left apart.
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