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God tempts, but He does not lead into error. To tempt is to afford
opportunities, which impose 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
crucifixum.185 (Sed plenum signis, sed plenum sapientia; vos autem Christum
non crucifixum et religionem sine miraculis et sine sapientia.)[186]
What makes us not believe in the true miracles is want of love. John: Sed
vos non creditis, quia non estis ex ovibus.187 What makes us believe the
false is want of love. Thess. 2.
The foundation of religion. It is the mir
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Montaigne for miracles.
815. It is not possible to have a reasonable belief against miracles.
816. Unbelievers the most credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian,
in order not to believe those of Moses.
817. Title: How it happens that men believe so many liars, who say that they
have seen miracles, and do not believe any of those who say that they have
secrets to make men immortal, or restore youth to them.--Having considered
how it happens that so great credence is given to so many impostors, who say
they have remedies, often to the length of men putting their lives into
their hands, it has appeared to me that the true cause is that there are
true remedies. For it would not be possible that there should be so many
false remedies and that so much faith should be placed in them, if there
were none true. If there had never been any remedy for any in, and all ills
had been incurable, it is impossible that men should have imagined that they
could give remedies, and still more impossible that so many others should
have believed those who boasted of having remedies; in the same way as did a
man boast of preventing death, no one would believe him, because there is no
example of this. But as there were a number of remedies found to be true by
the very knowledge of the greatest men, the belief of men is thereby
induced; and, this being known to be possible, it has been therefore
concluded that it was. For people commonly reason thus: "A thing is
possible, therefore it is"; because the thing cannot be denied generally,
since there are particular effects which are true, the people, who cannot
distinguish which among these particular