s He gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?" (Acts 11:15-17). And again: "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. An…

e signs on the faithful, just as, at the beginning, He came down on the apostles: hence Peter said ( Acts 11:15 ): "When I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning." Consequently there was no need for sacramental sensible matter, where G…

re de ipso dici posset, quod de Paulo apostolo dixit Salvator, «Vas electionis est mihi iste,» etc. (Act. XI, 15) , et quod in Ecclesiastico legitur, » [Col. 0636C] «Non est inventus similis illi» (Eccli. XLIV, 20) . Non enim tempore suo habuit aequalem in mundo, sed vere Aposto…