Commentary Par XXIV 106-110

Tozer (DDP Tozer.Par.XXIV.106-110) paraphrases Dante's rejoinder as follows: 'The reply to such an objection is that the conversion of the world to Christianity without miracles by men of no position like the Apostles would be incomparably the greatest of all miracles, and would be in itself a sufficient proof of the divine origin of Christianity.' See Augustine, the final words of the fifth chapter De civitate Dei XXII: '[O]ne grand miracle suffices for us, that the whole world has believed without any miracles' (tr. M. Dods).