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power of God which was inherent in Christ,'[1] and which He exerted within a region of human nature then unexplored. We cannot ponder too deeply on that great saying of St. Augustine, 'Portentum fit non contra naturam, sed contra quam est nota natura.'[2] Who shall attempt to lay down the laws which govern the operation of the spiritual upon the material? and still more to delimit the powers of the Personality and Will of Him, in whose name Apostles, Saints of the Church, and humble Christians unrecorded in history have wrought cures, which only a purblind scepticism can gainsay?

  1. ↑ Abp. Trench, Synonyms of New Testament (Art. xci.).
  2. ↑ De Civitate Dei, xxi. 8; quoted by Dr. Sanday, Life of Christ, &c., viii., adding, 'miracle is not really a breach of the order of nature; it is only an apparent breach of laws that we know, in obedience to other and higher laws that we do not know.'
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