Erastus remained at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletus sick.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The apostles could not do everything. They did not dispense miraculous gifts upon all occasions, lest more should be ascribed to them than was right…. For many things were permitted by God that the weakness of human nature might be manifested.
This Trophimus and Tychicus, we know from the book of the Acts, sailed away with him from Judea, and were everywhere his companions, perhaps as being more zealous than the rest.
Trophimus I have left at Miletum sick. Why then did you not heal him, instead of leaving him? The Apostles could not do everything, or they did not dispense miraculous gifts upon all occasions, lest more should be ascribed to them than was right. The same thing is observable of those blessed and righteous men, who were before them, as in the case of Moses, whose voice was weak. Why was not this defect removed? Nay, he was often afflicted with grief and dejection, and he was not admitted into the Land of Promise.
For many things were permitted by God, that the weakness of human nature might be manifested. And if with these defects the insensible Jews could ask, Where is Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt Exodus 32:1? How would they not have been affected towards him if he had brought them also i...
