X. And what are the two blind men by the wayside but the two people to cure whom Jesus came?  Let us show these two people in the Holy Scriptures.  It is written in the Gospel, “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also must I bring, that there may be one fold and one Shepherd.”  Who then are the two people?  One the people of the Jews, and the other of the Gentiles.  “I am not sent,” He saith, “but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”  To whom did He say this?  To the disciples; when that woman of Canaan, who confest herself to be a dog, cried out that she might be found worthy of the crumbs from the Master’s table.  And because she was found worthy, now were the two people to whom He had come made manifest, the Jewish people, to wit, of whom He said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel”; and the people of the Gentiles, whose type this woman exhibited, whom He had first rejected, saying, “It is not meet to cast the children’s bread to the dogs”; and to whom, when she said, “Truth, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table,” He answered, “O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt.”  For of this people also was that centurion of whom the same Lord saith, “Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel,” because he had said, “I am not worthy that Thou shouldst come under my roof, but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.”  So then the Lord even before His passion and glorification pointed out two people, the one to whom He had come because of the promises to the Fathers, and the other whom for His mercy’s sake He did not reject; that it might be fulfilled which had been promised to Abraham, “In thy seed shall all the nations be blessed.”

XI.  Attend, now, dearly beloved.  The Lord was passing by, and the blind men cried out.  What is this “passing by?” As we have already said, He was doing works which passed by.  Now upon these passing works is our faith built up.  For we believe on the Son of God, not only in that He is the Word of God, by whom all things were made; for if He had always continued in the form of God, equal with God, and had not emptied Himself in taking the form of a servant, the blind men would not even have perceived Him, that they might be able to cry out.  But when he wrought passing works, that is, when He humbled Himself, having become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, the two blind men cried out, Have mercy on us, thou Son of David.  For this very thing that He, David’s Lord and Creator, willed also to be David’s son, He wrought in time, He wrought passing by.