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Commentary from 
THE ANNOTATED
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Edited by JOHN HENRY BLUNT
Rivingtons, London, 1884
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
 
The Gospel of this Sunday, like the last, is a memorial of harvest, setting forth the duty of Christian thanksgiving by the example of the one leper out of the ten cleansed who returned to give glory to God in Christ.  Leprosy being incurable, except by a miracle, the act of our Lord is typical of that continual wonder-working by which He sustains our life, and gives to us the bounties of His Providence; and the act of thanksgiving suggests the recognition, at this time of the year, of the hand of God prospering by its mysterious operation the work of man in producing the great necessary of life.  Such a recognition involves falling down at the feet of God in thankful adoration: the absence of it leads men to depart on their way unheedful of the supernatural character which is involved in even the most ordinary provision for the necessities of life.