Hugo Grotius · 35 of 132

SECT. IV. The cause of which could be no other but those miracles which were done by him.

AND there were always very many amongst the worshippers of Christ who were men of good judgment, and of no small learning; such as (not to mention Jews) Sergius the president of Cyprus, Dionysius the Areopagite, Polycarp, Justin, Irenæus, Athenagoras, Origen, Tertullian, Clemens Alexandrinus, and others: who being such men, why they should themselves be worshippers of a man that was put to an ignominious death, especially when almost all of them were brought up in other religions, and there was neither honour nor profit to be had by the Christian religion; why, I say, they should do thus, there can be no reason given but this one; that upon a diligent inquiry, such as becomes prudent men to make, in a matter of the highest concern to them, they found, that the report which was spread abroad, concerning the miracles that were done by him, was true, and founded upon sufficient testimony; such as healing sore diseases, and those of a long continuance, only by a word, and this publicly; restoring sight to him that was born blind; increasing bread for the feeding of many thousands, who were all witnesses of it; restoring the dead to life again, and many other such like.