Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 14:33
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Matthew14:33
33 Then they that were in the ship, came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth, thou art the Son of God.
They, that is Christ, and Peter, whom we must suppose, to have walked some way with Christ upon the Sea, Christ by his Company making his mighty Power more Conspicuous, so as the Manichees had no reason to conclude, from Christs walking on the Sea, that he had no true Humane Body, for sure Peter had, and they must ascribe little to our Saviours Divine Nature, that will not allow him to have had a Power, to suspend the Natural Motion downward, which we see in all Gravity, which is an affection of all Humane Bodies. No sooner was Christ come into the Ship, but the Wind ceased▪ in Testimony of its Homage to him, who bringeth the Wind out of his Treasuries Those that were in the Ship, came and Worshipped him, paying a Religious Homage unto him, as he who had preserved their Lives from so great a danger, and they further owned him to be the Son of God. This was that great point, which God was bringing the World to the acknowledgment of, and we see it was done by degrees, his Miracles at first only procured a Veneration of him, and a Faith that he had his Power from God, Then he comes to be acknowledged the Son of David by the Blind Man. The Miracle of the five Loaves, brought many to acknowledge him that Prophet, that should come into the World. This is the first time we meet with so plain and open an acknowledgement of his being the Son of God, this was done not only by his Disciples, but by the Mariners, and the Passingers in the Ship, but it was far from a steady Faith, as to that point, which the Disciples yet wanted.
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