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| Of the Captivity of the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never Failed Them Therein.
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Chapter 14.—Of the Captivity of
the Saints, and that Divine Consolation Never Failed Them
Therein.
But, say they, many Christians were
even led away captive. This indeed were a most pitiable fate, if
they could be led away to any place where they could not find their
God. But for this calamity also sacred Scripture affords great
consolation. The three youths73
were captives; Daniel was a captive; so were other prophets: and
God, the comforter, did not fail them. And in like manner He has
not failed His own people in the power of a nation which, though
barbarous, is yet human,—He who did not abandon the prophet74
in the belly of a monster. These
things, indeed, are turned to ridicule rather than credited by
those with whom we are debating; though they believe what they read
in their own books, that Arion of Methymna, the famous lyrist,75
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“Second to none,” as he is called by
Herodotus, who first of all tells his well-known story
(Clio. 23, 24). | when he was thrown overboard, was
received on a dolphin’s back and carried to land. But that
story of ours about the prophet Jonah is far more
incredible,—more incredible because more marvellous, and more
marvellous because a greater exhibition of power.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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