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| Chapter XVII.—Accurate Information of the Christians.
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Chapter XVII.—Accurate Information of the Christians.
It behoved, therefore, that he should the rather
become a scholar of God in this matter of legislation, as he himself
confessed that in no other way could he gain accurate information
than by God’s teaching him through the law. And did not the
poets Homer and Hesiod and Orpheus profess that they themselves had
been instructed by Divine Providence? Moreover, it is said that among
your writers there were prophets and prognosticators, and that those
wrote accurately who were informed by them. How much more, then, shall
we know the truth who are instructed by the holy prophets, who
were possessed by674
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Literally, “contained.” | the Holy Spirit of
God! On this account all the prophets spoke harmoniously and in
agreement with one another, and foretold the things that would come
to pass in all the world. For the very accomplishment of predicted and
already consummated events should demonstrate to those who are fond of
information, yea rather, who are lovers of truth, that those things
are really true which they declared concerning the epochs and eras
before the deluge:675
| 675 [See
supra, book i. cap. 14, p. 93, the author’s account of his
own conversion.] | to wit, how the years have run on since the
world was created until now, so as to manifest the ridiculous mendacity
of your authors, and show that their statements are not true.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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