Anf-03 v.iv.v.xx Pg 25
Luke viii. 43–46.
He knew not by whom. “Who touched me?” He asks, when His disciples alleged an excuse. He even persists in His assertion of ignorance: “Somebody hath touched me,” He says, and advances some proof: “For I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.” What says our heretic? Could Christ have known the person? And why did He speak as if He were ignorant? Why? Surely it was to challenge her faith, and to try her fear. Precisely as He had once questioned Adam, as if in ignorance: Adam, where art thou?”4239 4239 See above, book iii. chap. xxv.
Thus you have both the Creator excused in the same way as Christ, and Christ acting similarly to4240 4240 Adæquatum: on a par with.
the Creator. But in this case He acted as an adversary of the law; and therefore, as the law forbids contact with a woman with an issue,4241 4241
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 8
VERSE (43) - Le 15:25 *etc:
