The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

IN THE GOSPEL HISTORY 9
acquired a name above every name. Behold the
Bridegroom " * who calls the world to God's feast
of truth, and love, and everlasting life !
" This
beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee,
and manifested His glory : and His disciples believed
on Him." The miracle had issued in something more
than a thrill of astonishment ; through the open door
of wonder walked in the vestal virgin, Faith.
2. The second word used in the New Testament for
miracle is Siivafjus, "dunamis" a power (Luke iv. 36;
v. 17).
That is, it was a manifestation of power more than
human. It was an influx into the order of nature of
the supernatural that lies behind and above nature.
It is
an entire fallacy to represent miracles as a violation
of natural law, unless we call that a violation of a
law which means its modification or control by a higher
law. If by an act of will I raise my arm, I am not thereby
violating the law of gravitation, but I am reversing the
tendency of my arm to hang down, by the exercise of
a higher law—the law of intelligent effort.
And just
as such a movement, if made, for instance, with a
view of warding off a blow dealt by a brutal
ruffian
at a little child, would be an interference with him,
though no violation of any natural law, so when
the " power " of God was " present to heal " the sick
through Jesus, it
was an interference with the forces
of disease, and yet no law of nature would be in
the least violated. In both cases the action of the
lower law would be modified by that of the higher
the physical forces of nature would be controlled by
the intelligent and moral forces of the spiritual world.
*
Union with God (pp. 10, n, 12), by J.
Rendel Harris, M.A.