[312] Neander is of opinion that an analogy may be found for this miracle yet more easily than for that of the loaves—in the mineral springs, the water of which is rendered so potent by natural agencies, that it produces effects which far exceed those of ordinary water, and in part resemble those of wine! (s. 369.) [↑]
[313] In Joann. tract. 8: Ipse vinum fecit in nuptiis, qui omni anno hoc facit in vitibus. [↑]
[314] Thus Augustine, ut sup. approved by Olshausen: sicut enim, quod miserunt ministri in hydrias in vinum conversum est opere Domini, sic et quod nubes fundunt, in vinum convertitur ejusdem opere Domini. [↑]
[315] Even Lücke, 1, s. 405, thinks the analogy with the above natural process deficient and unintelligible, and does not know how to console himself better than by the consideration, that a similar inconvenience exists in relation to the miracle of the loaves. [↑]
[316] Chrysost. hom. in Joann. 21. [↑]
[321] Von Gottes Sohn u. s. f. nach Johannes Evangelium, s. 131 f. [↑]