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Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord (Classic Reprint)
Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord - Classic Reprint Author:Richard Chenevix Trench PEELIMINAEY ESSAY. — CHAPTER I. O.Y THE NAMES OF THE MIRACLES. — Every inquiry about a thing will best begin with an investigation of tho narao or names which it bears ; for the nani6 seizes and presents the most distinctive features, tho innermost nature of tho thing which Ave desire to understand, ami embodies this in a word. In tho name we have... more » a witness to that which the universal sense of men, finding its utterance in language, has felt about the thing ; and if we would know one, wo must start with seeking to know also tho other. It is true that in tho investigation on which we aro now entering, thcro is not ono name only, but many, which present themselves for our study; for it results from what just has been said, that where we treat of a matter in many ways significant, its names also will bo many, seeing that no one will exhaust all its meaning. Each will embody some essential qualities of the thing; and not from tho contemplation exclusively of any ono, hut only of all of these
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CONTENTS; -i -; PRELIMINARY ESSAY; rHAJTtn rAOM; I On ini Names of tiik Miracles 1; II MIRACLES and NATTtRF 0; III The AcTflORiTT or Miracles 21; IV The Evanoelical, compared with other Cycles or; Miracles 37; v Tub Assaults on the Miracles 02; vi The Aj>olooetio Worth or the Miraoles 93; MIRACLES; 1 The Cbanoino or the Water into Wine 103; 2 Tue Oeaxiso or the Nobleman's Son 126; 3 The First Miraculous Dratjoht or Fishes 131; 4 The Stillino or the Tempest 152; 6 The Demoniacs in the Country of toe Gadarenks 161; 6 The IUisino or Jairub* Daoohter 191; 7 The Hkaltno or the Woman with an Issue or Blood 202; 8 The Opening or the Eyes or two Blind in the House 210; 9 Tue Healing or the Pajulttio 214; 10 The Cleansing or tde Lepeb 22C; 11 The Hkalino or the Centurion's Servant 238; 12 The Demoniac in the Synagogue or Caternaum 216; 13 Tua Healing or Simon's Wife's Momtn 250; vHl CONTENTS; TAOl; 1« less