I see the hijacking idiot is back.
"SoundBytes" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> order. From all bodies and minds, we cannot
> produce a feeling of true charity; this is impossible and of another and
> supernatural order.
>
> 794. Why did Jesus Christ not come in a visible manner, instead of
> obtaining
> testimony of Himself from preceding prophecies? Why did He cause Himself
> to
> be foretold in types?
>
> 795. If Jesus Christ had only come to sanctify, all Scripture and all
> things
> would tend to that end; and it would be quite easy to convince
> unbelievers.
> If Jesus Christ had only come to blind, all His conduct would be
confused;
> and we would have no means of convincing unbelievers. But as He came in
> sanctificationem et in scandalum,177 as Isaiah says, we cannot convince
> unbelievers, and they cannot convince us. But by this very fact we
> convince
> them; since we say that in His whole conduct there is no convincing
proof
> on
> one side or the other.
>
> 796. Jesus Christ does not say that He is not of Nazareth, in order to
> leave
> the wicked in their blindness; nor that He is not Joseph's son.
>
> 797. Proofs of Jesus Christ.--Jesus Christ said great things so simply
> that
> it seems as though He had not thought them great; and yet so clearly
that
> we
> easily see what He thought of them. This clearness, joined to this
> simplicity, is wonderful.
>
> 798. The style of the gospel is admirable in so many ways, and among the
> rest in hurling no invectives against the persecutors and enemies of
Jesus
> Christ. For there is no such invective in any of the historians against
> Judas, Pilate, or any of the Jews.
>
> If this moderation of the writers of the Gospels had been assumed, as
well
> as many other traits of so beautiful a character, and they had only
> assumed
> it to attract notice, even if they had not dared to draw
>
>
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