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| Many are Ignorant as to This, and Ask for Miracles, Which are Signified Under the Names Of ‘Fishes’ And ‘Whales.’
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Chapter XXVII.—Many are Ignorant
as to This, and Ask for Miracles, Which are Signified Under the
Names Of “Fishes” And “Whales.”
42. Therefore will I speak before Thee, O
Lord, what is true, when ignorant men and infidels (for the
initiating and gaining of whom the sacraments of initiation and
great works of miracles are necessary,1416
| 1416 We have already referred (p. 69, note 5, above) to
the cessation of miracles. Augustin has a beautiful passage in
Serm. ccxliv. 8, on the evidence which we have in the spread of
Christianity—it doing for us what miracles did for the early
Church. Compare also De Civ. Dei, xxii. 8. And he
frequently alludes, as, for example, in Ps. cxxx., to
“charity” being more desirable than the power of working
miracles. | which we believe to be signified
under the name of “fishes” and “whales”) undertake that Thy
servants should be bodily refreshed, or should be otherwise
succoured for this present life, although they may be ignorant
wherefore this is to be done, and to what end; neither do the
former feed the latter, nor the latter the former; for neither do
the one perform these things through a holy and right intent, nor
do the other rejoice in the gifts of those who behold not as yet
the fruit. For on that is the mind fed wherein it is gladdened.
And, therefore, fishes and whales are not fed on such food as the
earth bringeth not forth until it had been separated and divided
from the bitterness of the waters of the sea.
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