After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
All Commentaries on Mark 8:25 Go To Mark 8
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Our Saviour made use of exterior signs in the performance of his miracles to command attention, and to signify the inward effects of the favours grants: these the Catholic Church, after the example of her Founder and Model, also uses in the celebration of her sacraments, and for the same purposes. Nor ought any supercilious and superficial reasoner to undervalue and contemn the corporal and external application of holy things, under the hollow plea, that we are exclusively to attend to the spirit and faith.
