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Chapter 22.—Whether the God Whom
the Christians Serve is the True God to Whom Alone Sacrifice Ought
to Be Paid.
But it may be replied, Who is this
God, or what proof is there that He alone is worthy to receive
sacrifice from the Romans? One must be very blind to be still
asking who this God is. He is the God whose prophets predicted
the things we see accomplished. He is the God from whom Abraham
received the assurance, “In thy seed shall all nations be
blessed.”1298
That
this was fulfilled in Christ, who according to the flesh sprang
from that seed, is recognized, whether they will or no, even by
those who have continued to be the enemies of this name. He is
the God whose divine Spirit spake by the men whose predictions I
cited in the preceding books, and which are fulfilled in the Church
which has extended over all the world. This is the God whom
Varro, the most learned of the Romans, supposed to be Jupiter,
though he knows not what he says; yet I think it right to note the
circumstance that a man of such learning was unable to suppose that
this God had no existence or was contemptible, but believed Him to
be the same as the supreme God. In fine, He is the God whom
Porphyry, the most learned of the philosophers, though the
bitterest enemy of the Christians, confesses to be a great God,
even according to the oracles of those whom he esteems
gods.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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