Apodeixis, Antichristianismi

consolation, that we might conceive hope. Likewise, in 1 Cor. 10, after a brief annotation of several histories and a collection of examples (from which he draws, as from fountains, the most beautiful streams of exhortations), he adds a general canon in verse 11: Now all these things happened to them typically, but they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Finally, to the Galatians 4, having recited that most beautiful history of Ishmael and Isaac, born indeed from one father, namely Abraham, but from mothers of different conditions, having made a skillful accommodation to his own age, he adds what he undoubtedly wanted to be a rule for all posterity: Just as, he says, he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, so it is now. Did he not wish, by that notation of times, to teach those who read the sacred histories not sleepily, but seriously meditate upon them, that they should diligently compare things with things, and, having carefully observed the circumstances, transfer to their own age what was once done? And this, indeed, is both to read and to understand the sacred writings. Imitating this reason, James in chapter 5, verse 10, bids us take as a model of affliction and patience the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, following Christ in this matter, as appears from Matthew chapter 5, verse 12. James adds Job to the prophets, embracing the whole history in few words and exciting his readers to a diligent consideration of it. In a not dissimilar form, John in his first epistle, chapter 3, verse 12, treated the history of Abel killed by his brother Cain. Finally,