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 133as the sudden and universal propagation of this religion; 404404 the perpetual continuance of it;405405 that it should be rejected by very many of the Jews,406406 and embraced by strangers;407407 the hatred of the Jews against those who professed this religion;408408 the severe punishments they should undergo, upon the account of it;409409 the siege and destruction of Jerusalem and the temple,410410 and the sore calamities of the Jews.411411