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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...poured into the assumed humanity all the fulness of grace of which it was capable; the assumed humanity, body and soul, was as a mass of gold in the midst of a flame of fire, which wholly invested it, penetrated it, transformed it, and yet, as in the case of gold, not changing its nature. This is the unction which Jesus Christ received as man, and in that instant He became king and priest and mediator of the whole human race. St. Peter goes on to say that this unction was also an unction of power, referring to the abiding and inherent power of working miracles which Jesus received in the very act by which the hypostatic union was effected. And this power, divine and supernatural, which Jesus Christ had in virtue of His union with the divine Person, He exercised for the good of men: He went about doing good, freeing their bodies and souls from the tyrannical dominion of sin and Satan. By these words St. Peter announced to the Gentiles that Jesus Christ was divine and that the proofs of His divinity were the miracles of which His public life was so full. Miracles, said St. Peter, are the proofs of the divinity of Jesus Christ, of His mission and ours; and of these miracles, the Prince of the apostles goes on to say, in accents expressive of the deepest conviction of his soul, we are witnesses. We followed Jesus throughout Judea; we went up with Him to Jerusalem; we saw Him given into the hands of the Jews, His enemies; we saw Him hanging from the cross and put to death; we, yes we, saw Him risen on the third day as He had promised; He appeared to us, thus St. Peter goes on, as if carried away by a holy enthusiasm; no, He did not show Himself to all, but only to those who had been taught in His school and p...

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