above the human — so divine — that vast throng cried out its profession of faith till the hills and valleys rang again with " Hosannas to the Son of David! " and " Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord."
Secondly, we read the words of Christ addressed to the city — words scarcely intelligible, so broken are they by His sobs and tears. " Didst thou," He says, " but know this joyful day that I am the guardian of thy peace, thou wouldst not seek to murder Me. Didst thou but know what things are in store for thee in punishment for that crime, thou too wouldst weep. But now all this is hidden from thine eyes," and then He goes on to foretell the city's impending calamities. Here is our second argument for Christ's divinity. Experience teaches us, and Holy Writ further assures us, that the events of the future are known to no man — no, not even to the angels in heaven — but to God alone. " Show the things that are to come hereafter," says Isaias (xli. 23), " and we shall know that ye are gods." True, the prophets of the Old Law foretold the events of the New, but, as St. Peter says, it was not they who spoke, but the Spirit of God who spoke in them and through them. Between their prophecies and those of Christ, there is this difference, that theirs pointed ever not to themselves but to Christ. What the Old Testament says in prophecy, the New repeats as already accomplished. The two are well typified in the two seraphic spirits described by Isaias as flying through the heavens crying, one to the other,
