things, false though they be, and doubly false since claiming falsely to be miracles and used to prop up falsehood. But it is of the very essence of a true miracle that the performing of it fall within the power of God alone. Not only to men, but to devils and angels as well, does a true miracle bring wonder and amaze, for the cause thereof lies not in Nature but in God alone. Since, therefore, God can neither deceive nor be deceived, and since the working of true miracles is His exclusive prerogative, whatever assertion He confirms with a real miracle must essentially be true. See, then, what proof we have of His divinity. " Go," He says, " and relate to John what you have heard and seen. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear and the dead rise again." And not alone those seen by John's two disciples, not alone those recorded in the Gospels, but such numberless others, says St. John the Evangelist, that were they each recorded and described not the world itself would hold the books they would fill. They are as countless as the stars of heaven, and the glory of them outshines those of all the saints as does the noonday sun the other luminaries. It was Christ's strongest indictment against the Jews that having done works such as no man ever did before, they still rejected Him. His very enemies confessed His power, for while refusing to believe Him the Messias, they were secretly whispering one to the other: "When Christ really comes, will He, think you, do greater miracles than these ? "
