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the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
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Verse 5. The blind see, and so forth [2] Christ shews them who he was by the miracles, which were foretold concerning the Messias.—The poor have the gospel preached to them. This is the sense held forth by the prophet Isaias. Calmet. 41 verse 1. Witham.—That is, they are declared to have the kingdom of heaven, and are styled blessed. Here also he fulfils the prophecy of Isaias, (Calmet. 61) which in the Septuagint version is rendered, He sent me to preach the gospel to the poor. Nicolaus de Lyra.
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