SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:55
Entonces su espíritu volvi, y se levant luego; y l mand que le diesen de comer.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 8:55
Verse 55. And he commanded to give her meat.] Though she was raised to life by a miracle, she was not to be preserved by a miracle. Nature is God's great instrument, and he delights to work by it; nor will he do any thing by his sovereign power, in the way of miracle, that can be effected by his ordinary providence. Again, God will have us be workers together with him: he provides food for us, but he does not eat for us; we eat for ourselves, and are thus nourished on the bounty that God has provided. Without the food, man cannot be nourished; and unless he eat the food, it can be of no use to him. So, God provides salvation for a lost world, and bestows it on every penitent believing soul; but he neither repents nor believes for any man. A man repents and believes for himself, under the succours of God's grace.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 55. And her spirit came again , etc.] Her soul, which was departed from her, upon the all-powerful voice of Christ, returned to her body; and re-entered, as the Ethiopic version adds: this shows that the soul is immortal, and dies not with the body; that it exists in a separate state from it after death, and will hereafter re-enter the body, and be again united to it in the resurrection, of which this instance was a kind of pledge and emblem: where her spirit was during this time of separation, is needless, and would be curious and rash to inquire; it is enough to say with the Scripture, that it had returned, to God, that gave it, ( Ecclesiastes 12:7) and by whom it was sent back to its body again: and she arose straightway : from off the bed, and as Mark says, walked; for she was at an age capable of it, and which actions of arising and walking, clearly proved that she was alive, and in health: and he commanded to give her meat ; which was done, partly to show, not only that she was alive, but that her disorder was removed, and her appetite restored, and that she could eat and drink, as she had done before her illness; and partly, to observe that she was raised not to an immortal life, as none were before Christ, but to an animate life, which was to be supported by eating and drinking, and so a mortal one; (See Gill on Mark 5:43).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 41-56 - Let us not complain of a crowd, and a throng, and a hurry, as long a we are in the way of our duty, and doing good; but otherwise every wis man will keep himself out of it as much as he can. And many a poor sou is healed, and helped, and saved by Christ, that is hidden in a crowd and nobody notices it. This woman came trembling, yet her faith save her. There may be trembling, where yet there is saving faith. Observ Christ's comfortable words to Jairus, Fear not, believe only, and the daughter shall be made whole. No less hard was it not to grieve for the loss of an only child, than not to fear the continuance of that grief But in perfect faith there is no fear; the more we fear, the less we believe. The hand of Christ's grace goes with the calls of his word, to make them effectual. Christ commanded to give her meat. As babes ne born, so those newly raised from sin, desire spiritual food, that the may grow thereby __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ επεστρεψεν 1994 5656 V-AAI-3S το 3588 T-NSN πνευμα 4151 N-NSN αυτης 846 P-GSF και 2532 CONJ ανεστη 450 5627 V-2AAI-3S παραχρημα 3916 ADV και 2532 CONJ διεταξεν 1299 5656 V-AAI-3S αυτη 846 P-DSF δοθηναι 1325 5683 V-APN φαγειν 5315 5629 V-2AAN
Robertson's NT Word Studies
8:55 {Her spirit returned} (epestreyen to pneuma autes). The life came back to her at once. {Be given her to eat} (autei doqenai fagein). The first infinitive doqenai is an indirect command. The second fagein (second aorist active of esqiw) is epexegetic purpose.
