All that was great on earth was united together, the learned, the wise, the kings. The first wrote, the second condemned, the last slew. Yet notwithstanding all these oppositions, these men, so simple and so weak, resisted all these forces, subduing even the mighty, the learned and the wise, and removed idolatry from all the earth. And all this was done by the power which had foretold it
And prediction crowns all this, so that none may say that chance has done it all.
Whosoever having only a week to live, does not perceive that belief is the right side to take, and that all this is not a stroke of chance....
Now were we not slaves to passion, a week and a hundred years would seem one and the same thing.
The prophets foretold, and were not foretold. The saints were foretold, but were not foretellers. Jesus Christ was foretold and foreteller.
If I had never heard anything of the Messiah, yet after the admirable predictions of the course of the world which I see accomplished, I see that it is divine. And if I knew that these same books foretold a Messiah, I should be certain that he would come. And seeing that they place his time before the destruction of the second temple, I should say that he had come.
Ingrediens mundum.
Stone upon stone.
That which preceded, that which followed. All the Jews still exist, and are wanderers.
Why did not Jesus Christ come in a visible manner, instead of drawing proof from the prophecies which went before him?