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LXXIII.
After this he again slanders the ambassador of
Christianity, and gives out regarding him that he relates
“ridiculous things,” although he does not show or clearly
point out what are the things which he calls
“ridiculous.” And in his slanders he says that
“no wise man believes the Gospel, being driven away by the
multitudes who adhere to it.” And in this he acts like one
who should say that owing to the multitude of those ignorant persons
who are brought into subjection to the laws, no wise man would yield
obedience to Solon, for example, or to Lycurgus, or Zaleucus, or any
other legislator, and especially if by wise man he means one who is
wise (by living) in conformity with virtue. For, as with regard
to these ignorant persons, the legislators, according to their ideas of
utility, caused them to be surrounded with appropriate guidance and
laws, so God, legislating through Jesus Christ for men in all parts of
the world, brings to Himself even those who are not wise in the way in
which it is possible for such persons to be brought to a better
life. And God, well knowing this, as we have already shown in the
preceding pages, says in the books of Moses: “They have
moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked Me
to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with
those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a
foolish nation.”3657
And Paul
also, knowing this, said, “But God hath chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound the wise,”3658
calling, in a general way, wise all who appear to have made advances in
knowledge, but have fallen into an atheistic polytheism, since
“professing themselves to be wise they became fools, and changed
the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping
things.”3659
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