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And again, as we read in the Gospel for this day, when John the
Baptist sent to ask Him if He was really the Christ, He made use of
another prophecy of Isaiah, and told John's disciples that He WAS the
Christ, because He was fulfilling that prophecy; because He WAS
making the deaf hear, and the blind see, and preaching the gospel to
the poor. Now, how is that? Could Isaiah be right in applying those
words to himself, and yet Christ be right in applying them to
Himself? Can a prophecy be fulfilled twice over?
No doubt it can, my friends, and two hundred times over. No prophecy
of Scripture is of private interpretation, says St. Peter. That is,
it does not apply to any one private, particular thing that is to
happen. Every prophecy of Scripture goes on fulfilling itself more
and more, as time rolls on and the world grows older. St. Peter
tells us the reason why. No prophecy of Scripture is of private
interpretation; because it does not come from the will of man, from
any invention or discovery of poor short-sighted human beings, who
can only judge by what they see around them in their own times: but
holy men of old spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. And who
is the Holy Spirit? The Spirit of God; the everlasting Spirit; the
Spirit who cannot change, for He IS God.
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