see Yonge 1993: 884). Seneca calls for something more than hearsay, since “credulity is a source of very great mischief.… We should believe only what is thrust under our eyes and becomes unmistakable, … and develop the habit of being slow to believe” (On Anger 2.24). Yet hearing, while disputable, is apparently sufficient to mediate redeeming awareness of God, as the parallels in the table above variously show.18 John 4:42, for example, has the Samaritans stating after hearing the testimony of the