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Chapter XLV.—Polytheism Inexcusable.
“For be sure of this, that you shall not
have us participators in this attempt; nor will we suffer ourselves to
be deceived by you. For it will not serve us for an excuse in the
judgment, if we say that you deceived us; because neither could it
excuse the first woman, that she had unhappily believed the serpent;
but she was condemned to death, because she believed badly. For
this cause therefore, Moses, also commending the faith of one God to
the people, says, ‘Take heed to thyself, that thou be not seduced
from the Lord thy God.’654
Observe that
he makes use of the
same word which the first woman also made use of in excusing herself,
saying that she was seduced; but it profited her nothing. But
over and above all this, even if some true prophet should arise, who
should perform signs and miracles, but should wish to persuade us to
worship other gods besides the God of the Jews, we should never be able
to believe him. For so the divine law has taught us, handing down
a secret injunction more purely by means of tradition, for thus it
saith: ‘If there arise among you a prophet, or one dreaming
a dream, and give you signs or wonders, and these signs or wonders come
to pass, and he say to you, Let us go and worship strange gods, whom ye
know not; ye shall not hear the words of that prophet, nor the dream of
that dreamer, because proving he hath proved you, that he may see if ye
love the Lord your God.’655
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