Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
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, 1866
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Overview
An extensive commentary on the specific miracles of Jesus, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord explores each miraculous sign, healing, and exorcism. Bringing special attention to the Latin and Greek texts of the Gospels, Trench reaches into the meaning of each miracle by analyzing its vocabulary and semantics and the cause-and-effect relationship of the miracle and the crowd’s response, all in the scope of Jesus’ mission. Trench brings in classical theologians and commentators to further develop his research, including Augustine, Tertullian, Calvin, and Lightfoot.
In this, the author examines the names of the miracles; their nature; their authority; the evangelical compared with the other cycles of miracles; the assaults on miracles, [whether] Jewish, heathen, and infidel; the claim of any modern church to this power . . . and the apologetic worth of miracles. In his examination of the miracles themselves, he has enriched his own reflections, both in the text and in copious notes, with the testimony or opinions of the Fathers, and of ancient and modern writers. No author of prominence seems to have escaped him.
—Nathaniel Smith Richardson, The Church Review, vol. 3