By stretching forth thine hand to heal. — There seems something like an intentional assonance in the Greek words which St. Luke uses — iâsis (healing) and Jesus (pronounced Iesus) — as though he would indicate that the very name of Jesus witnessed to His being the great Healer. A like instance of the nomen et omen idea is found in the identification by Tertullian (Apol. c. 3) of Christos and Chrestos (good, or gracious), of which we have, perhaps, a foreshadowing in 1 Peter 2:3. (Comp. also Acts 9:34.)
Thy holy child Jesus. — Better, as before, Servant. (See Note on Acts 3:13.)