ways find in your heart a dwelling agreeable to Him! Endeavor, therefore, at all times, and especially during the holy season of Advent, to prepare it well for Him.
§ 2. Jesus Christ, true God.
23. Whence do we know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and true God?
We know it, 1. From the prophecies; 2. From the testimony of His Heavenly Father; 3. From His own testimony; 4. From the teaching of the Apostles; and 5. From the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
24. What do the prophets say?
They call the promised Redeemer: 'God, God with us, the Saint of Saints, the Wonderful, the Father of the world to come' (Isai. vii. 14, and ix. 6; Dan. ix. 24). Isaias (xxxv. 4) says of Him: 'God Himself will come and will save you'; and Jeremias (xxiii. 6) says: ' This is the name that they shall call Him, The Lord, our Just One.'
25. What is the testimony of His Heavenly Father? At the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, and at His Transfiguration on Mount Thabor, a voice from Heaven was heard, saying: 'This is my Beloved Son. in whom I am well pleased' (Matt. iii. 17, and xvii. 5).
26. What is the testimony of Christ?
Christ, 1. Testified that He is the Son of God, and true God, like His Father; 2. He confirmed His testimony by the holiness of His life, as well as by miracles and prophecies; and 3. He sealed it with His death.
' I and the Father are one. Believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father' (John x. 30, 38). 'He that seeth me, seeth the Father also' (John xiv. 9). 'All things whatsoever the Father hath, are mine' (John xvi. 15). 'What things he [the Father] doth, these the Son also doth in like manner. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth life, so the Son also giveth life to whom He will; that all men may honor the Son, as they honor the Father' (John v. 19, 21, 23). 'Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am'
