And he charged them sternly that no man should know it; and told them that something should be given her to eat.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
It is not said that he assented to his friends who brought the tidings and wished to prevent the Master from coming, so that our Lord’s saying, “Fear not, only believe,” is not a rebuke for his want of faith, but was intended to strengthen the belief which he had already. But if the Evangelist had related, that the ruler of the synagogue joined the friends who came from his house, in saying that Jesus should not be troubled, the words which Matthew relates him to have said, namely, that the damsel was dead, would then have been contrary to what was in his mind. It goes on, “And He suffered no man to follow Him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.”
