Seeing Miracles

...et nuntiaverunt in civitatem et in villas. Exierunt autem videre quod factum est, et venerunt ad Jesum. Hic ponitur consequens effectus miraculi ex parte civium regionis. Dicuntur autem hic tria: exitus videlicet ad probandum, veritatis probatio per visum et auditum, timoris irrationabilis perculsio ex veritate probata. De primo dicuntur tria: exitus ex auditu causatus, finis exitus qui est probatio per visum, et perventio exeuntium usque ad Dominum. Exitus autem de civitate et villis, exitum significat pristinee conversationis et societatis. Genes: Egredere de terra tua, et de cognatione tua, et de domo patris tui, et veni in terram quam monstrabo tibi. Cantic: O pulcherrima inter mulieres, egredere. Apocal: Exite de illa, populus meus. Videre quod factum est. Quia, ut dicit Horatius, Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures, Quam qua sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus. Job: Auditu auris audivi te, nunc aulem oculus meus videt te. Idcirco ipse me reprehendo, et ago poenitentiam. Joan: Jam non propter tuam loquelam credimus: ipsi enim audivimus, et scimus quia hic est vere Salvator mundi. Sic et nobis exeundum est a nobis, et nostris, ut videamus Dominum Jesum. II ad Corinth: Revelata facie qloriam Domini speculantes, in eamdem imaginem transformamur. Cantic: Egredimini et videte, filiae Sion, regem Salomonem, etc. Quod factum est. Ouia interim in factis suis Dominus videtur, donec por speciem in futuro clarius perspiciatur. I ad Corinth: Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate. tunc autem facie ad faciem. Ad Roman: Invisibilia Dei a creatura mundi, per ea quae facta sunt, intellecta, conspisciuntur: sempiterna quoque ejus virtus, et divinitas. Sanctus Albertus Magnus Commentarium In Evangelium Lucam, Caput VIII Source: Here p570

...and they announced it in the cities and villages, and they went out to see what had been done, and they came to Jesus. 1 Here is set down the consequence of the working of the miracle on the part of the people of the region. And it speaks of three things, the going out, that is, for proof, and the proof of truth through seeing and hearing, and the blow of irrational fear from the proof of truth. Concerning the first of these three matters, the going out is caused by hearing and the aim of going out is proof by seeing, and the way of those going out is to the Lord. The going out from the city and villages signifies the going out from the old life and society, 'Go out from your land and your kin and from the house of your father, and come to a land which I will show you.' In the Song of Songs, 'Most beautiful among women, go out.' In the Apocalypse, 'Come out of her, my people.' 2 'To see what had been done.' Because as Horace says, 'What passes through the ear moves the soul less than what comes before the faithful eyes.' 3 In Job, 'With the hearing of my eyes I have heard of you and now I look on you. Therefore I blame myself, and I am penitent.' In the Gospel of John, 'Now we do not believe because of your words, for we ourselves have heard, and now we know that He is the Saviour of the world.' So even we must go out from ourselves and what is ours so that we might see the Lord Jesus. In the second letter to the Corinthians, 'Looking on the revealed face of the Lord's glory we are transformed into that same image.' In the Song of Songs 'Go out and see king Solomon, daughters of Sion.' 4 'What had been done.' Because the Lord is seen through His deeds until He is perceived more clearly in the future through His face. 'We see now in a mirror, in mystery, but then face to face.' In Romans, 'The unseen things of God are seen from the created things of the world, understood through what has been done, even His eternal power and Divinity.' 5 Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Luke, Chapter 8 1 Lk 8.34-5 2 Gen 12.1, Song 1.7, Apoc 18.14 3 Horace Ars Poe 180-1 4 Job 42.5-6, Jn 4.42, 2 Cor 3.18, Song 3.11 5 1 Cor 13.12, Rom 1.20