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Posted by PeterSaxton on January 15, 2008, 3:48 pm
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the word of Isaiah might be fulfilled: "He hath blinded
them," etc.
574. Greatness.--Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those
who will not take the trouble to seek it, if it be obscure, should be
deprived of it. Why, then, do any complain, if it be such as can be found by
seeking?
575. All things work together for good to the elect, even the obscurities of
Scripture; for they honour them because of what is divinely clear. And all
things work together for evil to the rest of the world, even what is clear;
for they revile such, because of the obscurities which they do not
understand.
576. The general conduct of the world towards the Church: God willing to
blind and to enlighten.--The event having proved the divinity of these
prophecies, the rest ought to be believed. And thereby we see the order of
the world to be of this kind. The miracles of the Creation and the Deluge
being forgotten, God sends the law and the miracles of Moses, the prophets
who prophesied particular things; and to prepare a lasting miracle, He
prepares prophecies and their fulfilment; but, as the prophecies could
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