Mark 9:22

And often it has cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.
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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258
Also in the same place: All things are possible to him that believeth."

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
The answer of our Lord is adapted to the petition of the child's father. He had said: If thou canst do any thing, have mercy on us: and Christ answered: If thou canst believe Thus when the leper said: If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean, he answered: I will, be thou made clean. (Ven Bede) All things are possible to him that believeth. The sense is not, as if he that believeth could do all things; but that any thing might be done by the divine power and goodness, in favour of him that had a firm and lively faith. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
The Scripture indicates that this man was extremely weak in faith, as is evident at four points: from Christ’s saying that “All things are possible to him that believes;” from the saying of the man himself as he approached, “Help me in my unbelief;” from Christ’s commanding the devil to “enter no more into him;” and from the man’s saying again to Christ, “If you can.” The Gospel of St. Matthew, Homily

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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