Volumus signum videre de cœlo tentantes eum. Luc. xi. 16.
Generatio prava signum quærit; sed non dabitur.
Et ingemiscens ait; Quid generatio ista signum quærit. Marc. viii. 12. They asked a sign with a bad intent. Et non poterat facere. And nevertheless he promises them the sign of Jonah, the great and incomparable evidence of his resurrection.
Nisi videritis signa non creditis. He does not blame them for not believing without there having been miracles, but without their having been themselves witnesses of them.
Antichrist in signis mendacibus, says St Paul. 2 Thess. ii.
Secundum operationem Satanæ. In seductione ii qui pereunt eo quod charitatem veritatis non receperunt ut salvi fierent. Ideo mittet illis Deus operationem erroris ut credant mendacia.
As in the passage of Moses: Tentat enim vos Deus, utrum diligatis eum.
Ecce prædixi vobis, vos ergo videte.
The Church has three kinds of enemies, the Jews, who have never been of her body; the heretics, who have withdrawn from it; and bad Christians, who rend her from within.