[[195]] Jonah i. 2.

[[196]] 2 Kings xx. 1. Isai. xxxviii. 1.

[[197]] Numb. xxii. xxiii. xxiv.

[[198]] Numb. xxxi. 8.

[[199]] Aug. de Divinat. Dæmon. c. 3, pp. 507, 508, et seq.

[[200]] Idem. c. 5.

[[201]] S. August. in his Retract. lib. ii. c. 30, owns that he advanced this too lightly.

CHAPTER XVII.

REASONS WHICH LEAD US TO BELIEVE THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE ANCIENT ORACLES WERE ONLY IMPOSITIONS OF THE PRIESTS AND PRIESTESSES, WHO FEIGNED THAT THEY WERE INSPIRED BY GOD.