Basilii Valentini Tr. De rebus

of salt. These three presented the full and perfect body of all things. In which most especially all four Elementa elements are perfectly given, as I have long since warned in my writings, and especially where I treated of the microcosm.

But that I may hand down more concerning natural and supernatural, spiritual and corporeal things, we accept that the Canaanite woman was healed from the flow of blood of ten years, by mere contact, with which she touched the garment of the son of GOD, whose disease was indeed natural, but the medicine was supernatural, because she had obtained help from Christ through faith.

Likewise, a notable and most supernatural miracle is presented to us in those three men, Sadrach, Meschach, and Abednego, thrown into the fiery furnace by the order of King Nebuchadnezzar, who were nevertheless liberated from thence unharmed and safe by divine aid.

The confusion of languages and the introduction of diverse idioms, which happened in the construction of the Babylonian tower, to be raised even to heaven, was reckoned by the name of a supernatural miracle.

Furthermore, it was something supernatural that the Israelites were forced to lap water like dogs with tongues protruding, when they were compelled to join battle with the army of Pharaoh by the command of GOD. Thus also the sending of the dove from the ark of Noah, carrying a green olive leaf in its mouth as a sign of grace, was a divine and supernatural legation.

That Moses, a man of GOD, struck a rod into the hardest rock and drew water from it, eluded all human reason, nor did it any less surpass the forces of nature.