7/18/2020
Archpriest Lev Liperovsky
The cases of demonic possession described by the Evangelists make it possible to form an idea of the characteristic signs of this affliction.
Here also Christ notes the holiness of the feeling of gratitude to God for the benefactions received on the part of the one leper who turned back, and judged those in whose hearts none of that noble feeling was found.
Here, first of all, we have to notice that Christ works a miracle of forgiveness of sins for the paralytic, according to “their” faith; that, is, according to the faith of the four who had brought in the sick man.
