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SECT. VIII. And of their writings; because in them are contained many things which the event proved to be revealed by a Divine Power.

FOR we find in them many predictions concerning things which men could not possibly know of themselves, and which were wonderfully confirmed by the event; such as the sudden and universal propagation of this religion; the perpetual continuance of it; that it should be rejected by very many of the Jews, and embraced by strangers; the hatred of the Jews against those who professed this religion; the severe punishments they should undergo, upon the account of it; the siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the sore calamities of the Jews.