Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsNumbers 17

Aaron's rod.

^◦ This rod without root, neither it-self planted, nor any live branch engrafted therein, all dry without juice or moisture, bringing forth buds, flowers, & fruit, was a figure that our B. Lady should bear a son, and remain a Virgin. And this example evidently demonstrateth that she could so do, it being no more contrary to nature, that a virgin should conceive, and bear child without loss of virginity, than that the dry rod should bud and bear fruit, without ordinary concourse of nature. S. Aug. ser. 3. de temp. S. Greg. Nissen. de nativit. Dom. S. Bernard. ho. 2. in Evang. Missus est.

• ◦ Example of one miracle proveth the possibility of another.