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Chapter
XL.—Advent of the True Prophet.
“These things therefore having been
fore-arranged, He who was expected comes, bringing signs and miracles
as His credentials by which He should be made manifest. But not
even so did the people believe, though they had been trained during so
many ages to the belief of these things. And not only did they
not believe, but they added blasphemy to unbelief, saying that He was a
gluttonous man and a belly-slave, and that He was actuated by a
demon,564
even He who had come for their
salvation. To such an extent does wickedness prevail by the
agency of evil ones; so that, but for the Wisdom of God assisting those
who love the truth, almost all would have been involved in impious
delusion. Therefore He chose us twelve,565
the
first who believed in Him, whom He named apostles; and afterwards other
seventy-two most approved disciples,566
that, at least
in this way recognising the pattern of Moses,567
the multitude might believe that this is He of whom Moses foretold, the
Prophet that was to come.”568
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