Isaiah: our God comes; Christ rebukes wind and sea

“…paralyzed.” Then almost stretching out a hand he points to Emmanuel, saying thus: “Behold our God; behold the Lord comes with strength, and his arm with lordship.” And he said also elsewhere that “Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will hear. Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the stammerers will be clear,” and still further: “The dead will rise, and those in the tombs will be raised; for the dew from you is healing to them.” And again he spoke in his person: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me; he has sent me to evangelize the poor, to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind.” So when he makes the prophets’ voices the sign — that is, the proof — of faith in himself, and the prophets proclaim him God, who would dare to say the opposite of these things?

The disciples, he says, were being storm-tossed on the lake; then “coming they woke him saying: Master, we are perishing. And having been woken he rebuked the wind and the surge of the water, and it ceased and there was a calm.” It has been said about Christ through the voice of the blessed David: “You rule the might of the sea; you calm the tossing of its waves; the heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; you founded the inhabited world and its fullness.” So what would fit the one who calms the sea if not also to rule all things? And to have the heavens as his own, and to be able to found the inhabited world and its fullness — how would Christ not be understood to be truly God, the one who rebukes sea and winds, and that with authority?