"13 Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
14 You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples."
"13–14. Who is a great God like our God? Thou art the God who workest wonders. He is great because He does great and wonderful things, namely, the ones on which the psalmist said he would meditate. But the question is asked, “How are all His works great and wonderful.?”All the works which He does in the saints must necessarily be great and wonderful, because they have been prefigured by wonderful and great things. But if the literal and deathbound and transitory works were wonderful, how much more will their truth and the realities signified be wonderful and great? But since these were perceptible to the senses, they were thought about, and they were praised with the physical mouth. But here he says that he will treat of them inwardly, namely, in spirit, by contemplating their spiritual elements, where the physical eyes cannot see. And why do we delay? All things done in the past become wonderful to the present day through faith. Faith enlightens the blind, strengthens the halt, and causes the deaf to hear. So the Lord in the Gospel never did a miracle unless He first had the people’s faith, so that He did not simply do a shadowy miracle, but also a true one. Thus we read in the last chapter of Mark (Mark 16:17): “These signs, however, will follow those who believe in Me”; and in Matthew (Matt. 11:5): “The blind see.” And it is truly a great thing to heal and justify the soul, so that it despises everything visible and pins its hope on what is in heaven. Great mighty works!"
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