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Christian Arguments for the Divinity of Christ & Trinity 29 through his holy teaching and those who had become separated were united? And such metaphor-filled and fictive language exists in all revealed books. The second miracle of restoring a blind man and a leper to health: John 9:39—‘[I am come into this world] that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. ’ Here as well, being blind and seeing—how it has been spoken of in literal terms, yet by it is meant spiritual sight and blindness. Third — making food abundant: Food is also seen to be something else in the idiom of the Gospel. In John 4:34: ‘Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. ’ Then in John 6:48–51 Christ says: ‘I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. ’ The phrase involving water is also worth pondering over. In John 4:10–11, Christ tells a woman that If you had asked me for water I would have given you living water. In John 7:37–38, he says: ‘If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. ’ The phrase involving stream and river —In Jeremiah 2:13, it is written: ‘They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters. ’ In Jeremiah 17:13, it is written: ‘They have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. ’