SECT. IV. Or by the power of word.

Some of the Jews ascribe the miracles of Jesus to a certain secret name, which was put into the temple by Solomon, and kept by two lions for above a thousand years, but was conveyed thence by Jesus; which is not only false, but an impudent fiction. For, as to the lions, which is so remarkable and wonderful a thing, neither the books of the Kings, nor the Chronicles, nor Josephus, mention any thing of them: nor did the Romans, who before the times of Jesus entered the temple with Pompey, find any such thing.