both supernatural.
806. Miracles and truth are necessary, because it is necessary to convince
the entire man, in body and soul.
807. In all times, either men have spoken of the true God, or the true God
has spoken to men.
808. Jesus Christ has verified that He was the Messiah, never in verifying
His doctrine by Scripture and the prophecies, but always by His miracles.
He proves by a miracle that He remits sins.
Rejoice not in your miracles, said Jesus Christ, but because your names are
written in heaven.
If they believe not Moses, neither will they believe one risen from the
dead.
Nicodemus recognises by His miracles that His teaching is of God. Scimus
quia venisti a Deo magister; nemo enim potest haec signa facere quae tu
facis nisi Deus fuerit cum eo.178 He does not judge of the miracles by the
teaching, but of the teaching by the miracles.
The Jews had a doctrine of God as we have one of Jesus Christ, and confirmed
by miracles. They were forbidden to believe every worker of miracles; and
they were further commanded to have recourse to the chief priests and to
rely on them.
And thus, in regard to their prophets, they had all those reasons which we
have for refusing to believe the workers of miracles.
And yet they were very sinful in rejecting the prophets and Jesus Christ
because of their miracles; and they would not have been culpable, if they
had not seen the miracles. Nisi fecissem... peccatum non haberent.[179]
Therefore all belief rests upon miracles.
Prophecy is not called miracle; as Saint John speaks of the first miracle in
Cana and then of what Jesus Christ says to the woman of Samaria, when He
reveals to her all her hidden life. Then He heals the centurion's son; and
Saint John calls this "the second miracle."
809. The combinations of miracles.
810. The second miracle can suppose the first, but the first cannot suppose
the second.
811. Had it not been for the
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