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 been able  to  understand  those  truths,  but  he  was  able to realize  their  existence,  their  importance,  and  their consequences. For, remember  that  whereas  we weigh  human  testimony  by  the  consistency  of  the facts, we  judge  divine  testimony  by  the  authority  of the  witness,  and  the  witness  of  whom  I  speak  was  infallible. So, it  was  possible  for  God  to  reveal  those truths and  for  man  to  receive  them. But did  such revelation in  fact  take  place? Beyond the  shadow  of a  doubt,  as  every  leaf  of  the  Bible  attests. It is vouched  for  in  the  inspired  books  of  the  Old  Testament, which  are  the  history  of  man  and  his  intercourse with  God  from  the  beginning  down  to  the Augustan Era. In three  ways  has  God  at  times  made known hidden  truths  to  man:  first,  through  his senses, as  when  angels  in  human  form  appeared  to and  conversed  with  Abraham,  Jacob,  and  Gedeon; second, through  his  imagination,  as  when  Pharao  in the  kine  and  ears  of  corn,  seven  fat  and  fair  and  seven lean and  blighted,  foresaw  the  seven  years  of  plenty and of  famine,  or  when  Nabuchodonosor  in  his  vision of the  statue  learned  the  ultimate  triumph  of  the Church; and  third,  through  his  intellect,  as  in  the case of  Moses  to  whom  God  spoke  (Num.  xii.)  not in vision  or  dream,  but  mouth  to  mouth. This last was that  third  heaven  to  which  St.  Paul  was  caught up in  ecstasy. Christ had  communicated  with  him through his  senses  on  the  road  to  Damascus; through his  imagination  amid  the 'horrors  of  the shipwreck; and  finally  through  his  intellect  when, whether in  the  body  or  out  of  the  body,  he  knew  not,