Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Have all the gifts of healing? S. Augustine says ( Ephesians 137) that "God, who divides to every man severally as He will, has not willed that miracles should be wrought in honour of every saint." It is not wonderful then that God should work miracles in this place, in this temple, at this or that image of the Holy Mother, or again that He should give one grace to one saint, another to another. Those, e.g, who invoke S. Antony He sets free from the plague, those S. Apollonia from toothache, those S. Barbara from sudden death, and from dying without confession; for, as the Apostle says, "God divides to every man severally as He will." So at the pool of Bethesda, and not elsewhere, God miraculously healed the impotent folk (S. John v2-4). So by the rod of Aaron, and of no one else, He worked miracles (Num. xvii8). So by the image of the brazen serpent, and of nothing else, He set free the Jews from the plague of fiery serpents (Num. xxi9).
