ostensio

Updated: May 21, 2025

In those days it was not by the "persuasive words of human wisdom" that the crowds were gained over to Christ, but by a certain ostensio virtutis, by an experimental and not merely by a rational proof of the Gospel a proof which, if it admitted of any kind of formulation, did not compel them in virtue of the logicality of its form.

George Tyrrell - The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)