who had agreed to lose them for God’s sake; but He destroyed those of the Chaldæans, when they had preferred to save them by the means of their idolatry. Where is that novelty, which you pretend4288
4288 Ista.
in a doctrine which possesses these ancient proofs? But all the predictions have been fulfilled4289
4289 Decucurrerunt.
concerning martyrdoms which were to happen, and were to receive the recompenses of their reward from God. “See,” says Isaiah, “how the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and just men are taken away, and no man considereth.”4290
[This was done] that man, receiving an unhoped-for salvation from God, might rise from the dead, and glorifyGod, and repeat that word which was uttered in prophecy by Jonah: “I cried by reason of mine affliction to the Lord my God, and He heard me out of the belly of hell;”3686
