Apodeixis, Antichristianismi

since from Moses, that most ancient writer, we have writers succeeding one another in almost all ages, it is possible to see that later writers accommodated the narratives of their predecessors quite diligently, and no less appositely, to the circumstances of their own times. This can be most clearly demonstrated from the single history of the destruction of the Sodomites and Gomorrahites. For it is clearly known from the extant writings that Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the other prophets never ceased to have this upon their lips, and used it conveniently to confirm and illustrate their most grave exhortations and reproofs. With what dexterity also Isaiah accommodated that miraculous victory which Gideon, with God as author and leader, gained over the Midianites (Judg. 7) to the liberation of Israel from that most harsh Babylonian captivity (chap. 9), can be seen: of which Habakkuk also makes mention in his prayer. And does not David constantly repeat and inculcate almost everything that had been handed down before by Moses, and turn it to the use of both himself and the entire Church? Witnesses to this fact are several Psalms which consist almost entirely of those narratives. And in Psalm 119, verse 52, he testifies that he was marvelously refreshed and sustained amidst the most grave afflictions and storms of temptations by the memory of the judgments rendered by God in all past ages. Likewise, in Psalm 22, verses 4 and 5, does he not show that he turned his mind to sustain his hope in the midst of the most harsh afflictions