Re: (IVÁN): RECTITUD

no necessity; if men do not love God, they will
do a certain thing. To lead into error is to place a man under the necessity
of inferring and following out what is untrue.

822. Abraham and Gideon are above revelation. The Jews blinded themselves in
judging of miracles by the Scripture. God has never abandoned His true
worshippers.

I prefer to follow Jesus Christ than any other, because He has miracle,
prophecy, doctrine, perpetuity, etc.

The Donatists. No miracle which obliges them to say it is the devil.

The more we particularise God, Jesus Christ, the Church.

823. If there were no false miracles, there would be certainty. If there
were no rule to judge of them, miracles would be useless and there would be
no reason for believing.

Now there is, humanly speaking, no human certainty, but we have reason.

824. Either God has confounded the false miracles, or He has foretold them;
and in both ways He has raised Himself above what is supernatural with
respect to us, and has raised us to it.

825. Miracles serve not to convert, but to condemn. Part I-II (Q. 113, A.
10, Ad. 2.)[182]

826. Reasons why we do not believe.

John 12:37. Cum autem tanta signa fecisset, non credebant in eum, ut sermo
Isayae impleretur... Excaecavit,183 etc.

Haec dixit Isaias, quando vidit gloriam ejus et locutus est de eo.184

Judaei signa petunt et Graeci sapientiam quaerunt, nos autem Jesum
cruci