Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsActs 3

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Acts 3:6

That which I have.

◦ This power of working miracles was in Peter, and Peter properly did give this man his health, though he received that force and virtue of God, and in & by him executed the same. Therefore he saith, That which I have, I give to thee. And the Heretics are ridiculous that note here, a miracle done by Christ by the hands of the Apostles, to make the simple believe that they had no more to do than a dead instrument in the workman's hand.

  • ◦ Saints do miracles and the like, but by the power of God.

Acts 3:12

By our power.

When the Apostle's remit sins, or do any other miracles, they do it not by any human, proper, or natural power in themselves: but of supernatural force given them from above, to prove that the faith of Christ is true, and that he is God whom the Jews crucified, in whose name and faith they work, and not in their own.

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