Quis contra nos?
Paradin, 1562.
The scene described in the Acts of the Apostles, chap, xxviii. v. 3–6, Paradin thus narrates,—
“Saint Paul, en l’ iſle de Malte fut mordu d’vn Vipere: ce neantmoins (quoi que les Barbares du lieu le cuidaſſent autrement) ne valut pis de la morsure, secouant de sa main la Beste dans le feu: car veretablement à qui Dieu veut aider, il n’y a rien que puiſse nuire.”
Whitney, along with exactly the same device, gives the full motto,—
“Si Deus nobiscum, quis contra nos?”
“His seruantes God preserues, thoughe they in danger fall:
Euen as from vipers deadlie bite, he kept th’ Appostle Paule.”