“The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people’s own blindness”

References in classic literature….

“The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes and stiff bodies, which when not unnaturally shrunken were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected him.”

(‘Can Such Things Be?’ by Ambrose Bierce)

“The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart of Sonya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally.”

(‘War and Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy)