Mediate revelation; it is manifest or occult; manifest needs no added signs
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XVIII.Mediate revelation is that by which God, through his ambassadors, signifies to others something that must be believed as divine.
XIX.Mediate revelation is either (1) manifest or occult.
XX.It is manifest when God, through his ambassadors, signifies something as divine to others in such a way that the very mode of the revelation and its circumstances — without any further signs added — make it evident of themselves that God is speaking.So God promulgated his law to the people through Moses (Exodus 20 and following).The equity of that law is so plain that, even if no signs were added, a holy voice would still cry aloud its divine origin.
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XVIII. Mediata revelatio est, qua Deus per legatos suos aliis aliquid ut divinum credendum significat.
XIX. Estque 1. manifesta aut occulta.
XX. Manifesta, qua Deus aliquid ut divinum per legatos suos aliis ita significat, ut ex ipso revelationis modo & circumstantiis, sine aliis additis signis, Deum loqui per se evidenter patefcat.
Sic Deus per Mosen legem suam promulgavit populo, Exod. 20. &c. cujus aequitas evidens est, ut, licet nulla signa adderentur, tamen divinam illius originem sancta voce clamaret.