were counted worthy of the Holy Spirit delivered them unto us;’ but Those who were eyewitnesses? Because, in matter of belief, the very thing that gives one a right to be believed, is the having learned from eyewitnesses: whereas the other appears to foolish persons mere parade and pretension. And therefore John also speaks thus: I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.* And Christ expresses Himself in the same way to Nicodemus, while he was dull of apprehension, We speak that we do know,
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