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[Golden Uhlenhopp]

Le the Gospel is preached by a few men of no mark, sheweth the might of
our religion and the weakness and deadliness of your wicked doctrines.
Because your side, despite its having wise advocates and mighty
champions, is dying down, and waxing weak, whilst our religion, though
possessed of no human help, shineth from afar brighter than the sun, and
hath won the fulness of the world. If it had been set up by orators and
philosophers, and had had kings for its succour, thou that art evil
wouldst have found occasion to declare that it was wholly of human
power. But now, seeing, as thou dost, that the holy Gospel, though
composed but by common fishermen, and persecuted by every tyrant, hath
after this won the whole world for its sound hath gone out into all
lands, and its words into the ends of the world--what canst thou say but
that it is a divine and unconquerable power establishing its own cause
for the salvation of mankind? But what proof seekest thou, O fool, that
thy prophets are liars and ours true, better than the truths I have told
thee? Except thy cause had been vain talk and falsehood, it could not,
possessing such human support as it did, have suffered loss and decline.
For he saith, 'I have seen the ungodly in great power, and exalted like
the cedars of Libanus: and I went by and lo, he was gone: and I sought
him but his place could nowhere be found.' "Concerning you, the
defenders of idolatry, were these words spoken by the prophet. For a
very, very little while and your place shall not be found: but, like as
the smoke vanisheth, and like as wax melteth in face of the fire, so
shall ye fail. But, as touching the divine wisdom of the Gospel, thus
saith the Lord, 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall
not