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XXIII.
In the next place, ridiculing after his usual
style the race of Jews and Christians, he compares them all “to a
flight of bats or to a swarm of ants issuing out of their nest, or to
frogs holding council in a marsh, or to worms crawling together in the
corner of a dunghill, and quarrelling with one another as to which of
them were the greater sinners, and asserting that God shows and
announces to us all things beforehand; and that, abandoning the whole
world, and the regions of heaven,3769
and this great
earth, he becomes a citizen3770
among us alone, and
to us alone makes his intimations, and does not cease sending and
inquiring, in what way we may be associated with him for
ever.” And in his fictitious representation, he compares us
to “worms which assert that there is a God, and that immediately
after him, we who are made by him are altogether like unto God, and
that all things have been made subject to us,—earth, and water,
and air, and stars,—and that all things exist for our sake, and
are ordained to be subject to us.” And, according to his
representation, the worms—that is, we ourselves—say that
“now, since certain amongst us commit sin, God will come or will
send his Son to consume the wicked with fire, that the rest of us may
have eternal life with him.” And to all this he subjoins
the remark, that “such wranglings would be more endurable amongst
worms and frogs than betwixt Jews and
Christians.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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