The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

THE HEALING OF THE TEN
LEPERS
" But where are the nine w —LUKE xvii. 17.
It is customary to put what are called "watermarks"
in paper by which manufacturers identify their own
work, and defend themselves and their customers from
imitations. Not long ago a fraud was detected by
holding a forged document against the light, the
paper being found to bear a date later than that
inscribed by the forger's pen.
When an antiquarian
expert, about twenty years ago, offered a bundle of
old Hebrew MSS. to the British Museum, smelling of
ancient spices and containing the earliest version of
several Bible books, the swindle was detected by
analysing the scrip, and proving that it was all of
modern manufacture.
There are certain watermarks in the miracles of
Christ which help our faith to recognise their genuineness.
This miracle, I think, is full of them, not only
in the fidelity
of the narrative to the customs of the
day—the writer being a Greek—but in the character
of the miracle itself.
While on our way to the lessons
which the parable contains for us, let us look at the
story for a moment
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