8.  The Lord heard the prayer of the Prophets.  The Father disregarded not the perishing of our race; He sent forth His Son, the Lord from heaven, as healer:  and one of the Prophets saith, The Lord whom ye seek, cometh, and shall suddenly come Mal. iii. 1..  Whither?  The Lord shall come to His own temple, where ye stoned Him.  Then another of the Prophets, on hearing this, saith to him:  In speaking of the salvation of God, speakest thou quietly?  In preaching the good tidings of God’s coming for salvation, speakest thou in secret?  O thou that bringest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain.  Speak to the cities of Judah.  What am I to speak?  Behold our God!  Behold! the Lord cometh with strength Isa. xl. 9, 10.!  Again the Lord Himself saith, Behold! I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.  And many nations shall flee unto the Lord Zech. ii. 10, 11..  The Israelites rejected salvation through Me:  I come to gather all nations and tongues Isa. lxvi. 18..  For He came to His own and His own received Him not John i. 11..  Thou comest and what dost Thou bestow on the nations?  I come to gather all nations, and I will leave on them a sign Isa. lxvi. 19, a passage interpreted by the Fathers of the sign of the Cross.  Eusebius (Demonstr. Evang. vi. 25):  “Who, on seeing that all who have believed in Christ use as a seal the symbol of salvation, would not reasonably be astonished at hearing the Lord’s saying of old time, And they shall come, and see My glory, and I will leave a sign upon them?”  Cf. Cat. iv. 14; xiii. 36..  For from My conflict upon the Cross I give to each of My soldiers a royal seal to bear upon his forehead.  Another also of the Prophets said, He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet Ps. xviii. 9.  The “feet,” interpreted allegorically, mean the Humanity, and the “darkness” the mystery of the Incarnation.  See Euseb. Demonstr. Evang. vi. 1, § 2..  For His coming down from heaven was not known by men.