Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Ver. 47. Behold, thy mother and thy brethren] This was a weakness in his mother; though otherwise full of grace, yet not without, original sin, as the Sorbonists contend, but had need of a Saviour, as well as others, Luke 1:47. Scipio permits not a wise man so to do amiss once in his whole life, as to say, non putaram. How much better Crates, the philosopher, a who said that in every pomegranate there is at least one rotten kernel to be found; intimating thereby, that the best have their blemishes, their faults and follies.
a Omnibus malis punicis inest granum putre.