In the next place, as if the only event predicted were this, that He was to be “the Judge of the righteous and the Punisher of the wicked,” and as if neither the place of His birth, nor the sufferings which He was to endure at the hands of the Jews, nor His resurrection, nor the wonderful works which He was to perform, had been made the subject of prophecy, he continues:  “Why should it be you alone, rather than innumerable others, who existed after the prophecies were published, to whom these predictions are applicable?”  And desiring, I know not how, to suggest to others the possibility of the notion that they themselves were the persons referred to by the prophets, he says that “some, carried away by enthusiasm, and others having gathered a multitude of followers, give out that the Son of God is come down from heaven.”  Now we have not ascertained that such occurrences are admitted to have taken place among the Jews.  We have to remark then, in the first place, that many of the prophets have uttered predictions in all kinds of ways³¹⁶²

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