Note:
I. That spiritual powerlessness, of which the withered hand is a just and appropriate symbol. (1) The organ was a hand the organ of touch. (2) Not both this man's hands were withered, but the better and more serviceable of the two. Faith is the spiritual faculty, corresponding to the bodily faculty of touch. (3) It was the design of Nature that the man should use his hand, but disease had thwarted this design. So, in the Fall, the spirit of man sustained a wreck.
II. What Christ requires us to do in order to the removal of this infirmity. He demands exertion and energy on our parts before He will consent to put forth that healing power which alone can recover us from our soul's infirmity.
E. M. Goulburn, Sermons in the Parish Church of Holywell,p. 313.
References: Luke 6:10. Christian World Pulpit,vol. xii., p. 57. Luke 6:11-18. Homilist,new series, vol. iv., p. 627.