20. By this example, then, it is shown that
not all can merit the miracles of divine power, but they who are aided
by the pursuits of religious devotion, and that they lose the fruits of
divine working who are devoid of reverence for heaven. It is also
shown in a mystery that the Son of God, in order to restore the Church,
took upon Himself the mystery of a human body, casting off the Jewish
people, from whom the counsellor and the prophet and the miracles of
the divine benefits were taken away, Isa. iii. 2. because
that as it were by a kind of national blemish they were not willing to
believe in the Son of God.