“And receiving him, he kissed him with his wife, weeping for joy. Judaea, in the end, joyfully receiving the union with Christ, joined weeping to its joy: rejoicing because it believes; grieving because it came to the Lord so late.”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Tobit
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13And the whiteness pilled away from the corners of his eyes: and when he saw his son, he fell upon his neck.
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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;
— Tobit 11:13 —
14And he wept, and said, Blessed art thou, O God, and blessed is thy name for ever; and blessed are all thine holy angels:
15For thou hast scourged, and hast taken pity on me: for, behold, I see my son Tobias. And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.