Healing And Salvation

Succedit deinde in hoc puero post paralysis sanitatem curationi populi de monte descendentis, salus gentium. Jacebat enim puer dissolutus in domo humili, corruptibili, et ingressu ejus cujus tamen egens erat, Salvatoris indigna. Et tribunus scit puerum verbo posse sanarit quia salus gentium omnis ex fide est, et in praeceptis Domini vita est universorum. Igitur jacentes in saeculo, et peccatorum morbis dissolutae gentes existimandae sunt: omnibus undique artibus fluidis, et ad consistendi officium ingrediendique corruptis. Quarum salutis sacramentum in tribuni puero expletur, non tamen ingressuro domum Christo. Licet enim in saeculo demoratus sit, vitia tamen saeculi et peccata non adiit. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, In Evangelium Matthaei Commentarius, Cap VII Source: Migne PG 9.955b-c

Then after coming down from the mount there occurs the curing of the paralytic servant, 1 the salvation of the nations. For the servant was lying in a base and corrupted house and so unworthy of the entry of the Saviour of which he was so much in need. But the tribune knows that the servant will be healed by a word because the salvation of all the nations is by faith, and life for all peoples is found in the teaching of the Lord. Thus should the nations should be reckoned as those lying in the world and undone with the sickness of sin, all their limbs feeble and incapable of entering into and standing fast in what they should. The mystery of their salvation is fulfilled in the servant of the tribune, even though Christ does not go into the house. For although He sojourned in this world, He did not enter into worldly vices and sins.   Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 7 1 Mt 8.5-6