And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Ver. 5. There came unto him a centurion] Rarior est virtus veniens e corpore raro. Soldiers are commonly fierce and godless creatures. But this noble centurion might well have made a commander in that Thundering Legion, and might well have had his hand in that Victoria Halleluiatica (as it was called) obtained by the orthodox Britons against the Pelagian Piers and Saxons here, Victoria fide obtenta, non viribus, as the story tells us; a victory gotten by faith, and not by force, Κεραυνοβολος D. Ussier, de Britann. Eccles. primord, p. 332.