46. What, on the other hand, do miracles amount to? Miracles do not take place at this day, because they lead men astray, and make them natural. They close up the interiors of their mind, in which faith ought to be rooted; wherefore, mere falsities proceed thence (see Matt. xxiv 24). What did the miracles which were wrought in Egypt effect with the sons of Israel? What did those miracles effect which were wrought before them in the wilderness? What those miracles at their entrance into the land of Canaan? What the miracles wrought by Elijah and Elisha? What the miracles performed by the Lord Himself? Was anyone ever made spiritual by their means? What have the miracles among the Roman Catholics done for them? and those of Anthony at Padua? and of the three wise men at Cologne? And what has been the use of the countless miracles in the monasteries, which are filled with pictures, plates and gifts? Has ever anyone been made spiritual thereby? Have they not become natural thereby, so that there is scarcely any truth of the Word among them, but only externals of worship which pertain to men and to traditions?