The Savior judged it fitting to do all these things so that, since human beings had failed to know His providence in all things and had not perceived His divinity through creation, the works He performed in the body might at least lead them to look up. Through Him they could gain knowledge of the Father, reasoning, as I said before, from these particular works to His providence over the whole universe.
Who, seeing His authority over demons, or seeing the demons confess that He was their Lord, could still doubt whether He is the Son, the Wisdom, and the Power of God?
Even creation itself did not remain silent. Rather, most wonderfully, at His death—or rather at the very monument of victory over death, I mean the Cross—all creation confessed that the one made known and suffering in the body was not merely human, but the Son of God and Savior of all. For the sun turned away, the earth shook, and the mountains split, and everyone was terrified. These things showed that Christ on the Cross was God, while all creation was His servant and, by its fear, bore witness to the presence of its Master.
Thus God the Word made Himself known to people through His works. Next we should recount the end of His bodily life and course and explain what kind of death His body suffered, especially because this is the central point of our faith and everyone speaks about it. Then you may know that His death too reveals Christ no less clearly as God and the Son of God.