More Witnesses That God Would Come

But why am I lingering so long over one example, as if there were not many? Even then, how could the fact that God was to come in the flesh escape men’s knowledge, when the prophet said of him openly, as if to all mankind, “Behold your God,” and elsewhere, “Behold our God”? And this: “God the mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace”; and, “Of his kingdom there will be no end.” And when he had already come, could the fact of his coming escape the knowledge of those who openly confessed that he had come? Was Peter ignorant of the coming of God when he said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”? Did Martha not know what she was saying, or in whom she believed, when she said, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, who has come into this world”? And all those who asked him to cure their sicknesses, or restore their limbs, or give life to their dead: did they ask these things of man’s weakness, or of God’s omnipotence? [a]