“Therefore, when the dog announced that Tobias had come, his blind father, rising, began to run, stumbling with his feet. Hearing the word of salvation from the teachers, the Hebrew people rise from the long slumber of their infidelity and run with love to the Lord; although stumbling in their works, until the fullness…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Tobit
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10Tobit also went forth toward the door, and stumbled: but his son ran unto him,
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8Therefore anoint thou his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he shall rub, and the whiteness shall fall away, and he shall see thee.
9Then Anna ran forth, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said unto him, Seeing I have seen thee, my son, from henceforth I am content to die. And they wept both.
— Tobit 11:10 —
11And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers’ eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.
12And when his eyes began to smart, he rubbed them;