53. But why make use of arguments? Let us
use the examples He gives, and by the example of the Incarnation prove
the truth of the mystery. Did the course of nature proceed as
usual when the Lord Jesus was born of Mary? If we look to the
usual course, a woman ordinarily conceives after connection with a
man. And this body which we make is that which was born of the
Virgin. Why do you seek the order of nature in the Body of
Christ, seeing that the Lord Jesus Himself was born of a Virgin, not
according to nature? It is the true Flesh of Christ which
crucified and buried, this is then truly the Sacrament of His Body.