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

62 DEMONIACS IN THE
I.
The incident has for its setting a marvellous
display of power.
" The man," as Bushnell says, " in Christ seems to
sleep, and only the God to be awake." A panorama
of omnipotence is unfolded. We see the lake lashed
to fury Iby the sudden storm, the boat driving upon
the gale, the disciples panic-stricken, Jesus asleep.
The waves grow bold and board the ship. What
care those roarers for the name of Christ Here is
brute force, indiscriminating, sullen, eyeless, sweeping
human lives like rubbish before it.
Nor is
" Streams will not curb their pride
The just man not to entomb,
Nor lightnings go aside
To give his virtues room.
that wind less rough which blows a good man's barge."
But He awoke and said, " Peace, be still ! and the
wind ceased and there was a great calm." Who, then,
is This This is the Perfect One who is within and
without and above all things, " ruling the clouds of
the air and the fishes of the sea, as well as the fear
and thoughts of man " "
; without quality, good
;
without
quantity, great ; without need, creating ; without
place, governing ;
without form, containing all things."
Stepping ashore, their souls thrilling with an all
but intolerable sense of omnipotence, they encounter