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MSG 00791
MSG 00791
Source: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.models.rockets/2007−12/msg00791.html
Et ingemiscens ait: Quid generatio ista signum quaerit?200 (Mark 8:12.) They
asked a sign with an evil intention.
Et non poterat facere.201 And yet he promises them the sign of Jonah, the
great and wonderful miracle of his resurrection.
Nisi videritis, non creditis.202 He does not blame them for not believing
unless there are miracles, but for not believing unless they are themselves
spectators of them.
As in the passage of Moses: Tentat enim vos Deus, utrum diligatis eum.205
843. Here is not the country of truth. She wanders unknown amongst men. God
has covered her with a veil, which leaves her unrecognised by those who do
not hear her voice. Room is opened for blasphemy, even against the truths
that are at least very likely. If the truths of the Gospel are published,
the contrary is published too, and the questions are obscured, so that the
people cannot distinguish. And they ask, "What have you to make you believed
rather than others? What sign do you give? You have only words, and so have
we. If you had miracles, good and well." That doctrine ought to be supported
by miracles is a truth, which they misuse in order to revile doctrine. And
if miracles happen, it is said that miracles are not enough without
doctrine; and this is another truth, which they misuse in order to revile
miracles.