XXX. Praphetae miracula Dei protulerunt per sapientiam et scientiam

XXX. Praphetae miracula Dei protulerunt per sapientiam et scientiam

But the finger of God had also written His secrets in that place, which He wanted to reveal, because the Holy Spirit so filled the mind of man that he prophesied, and he did this through vision; while the prophets, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, foresaw future events from afar. And through wisdom, some spoke many things, because the omnipotence of God touched their minds, so that they expressed many meanings, as wisdom built all things. Some, indeed, through knowledge, when the Word of God was examining and inspiring their understanding, declared hidden and secret things. For that root, from which God made man out of the dust, the Spirit of the same God inspired him with life, giving him an everlasting soul, which will never end. The Holy Spirit illuminated the prophets in such a way that they, as if in a foreign life, proclaimed the miracles of God, just as the dust itself was transformed into a different life of flesh and blood. These are the miracles of Divinity that God reveals through His wonders by the prophets, especially when they speak, foreseeing what they perceive in the Spirit, and writing as they convey these things by the command of God, who is to be remembered; and by striking the harp, because reason, inspired by the Holy Spirit, finds melodies in voice and in the words praising God, since it emits sound, and therefore also praises God in these things. And these things, even when the cherubim prophesy with wings, God acts among people, for in all these, as has been foretold, the prophets, inspired by the spirit of prophecy, reveal many miracles in the likeness of cherubim, who know and proclaim the hidden things of God, which God works in His secret judgment, wherever He wants, however He wants, and in whatever way He wants. The essence of wisdom lies in the knowledge of God. But the heart is a whole, pure thing, completely black and full of stars; this means that rationality consists in the deep wisdom of God's protection, and it does not divide itself into any diversity of opposition, even though people have many differences in their ways, and that all the wise, both of the old and new Testament, spoke of Christ, making one in Him. And in the darkness, reason often leans toward the flesh, and it frequently wonders what these things are and what their nature is that it speaks of; yet it shines in the light of the stars, because faith and understanding exist in people, as they believe in God, whom they cannot see, and because they also understand the miracles of God, which their understanding often finds laborious to comprehend, as they recognize that they are created by God.