be very blind to be still asking who this God is. He is the God whose prophets predicted the things we see accomplished. He is the God from whom Abraham received the assurance, In your seed shall all nations be blessed . Genesis 22:18 That this was fulfilled in Christ , who according to the flesh sprang from that seed, is recognized, whether they will or no, even by those who have continued to be the enemies of this name. He is the God whose divine Spirit spoke by the men whose predictions I cited in the preceding books, and which are fulfilled in the Church which has extended over all the world. This is the God whom Varro, the most learned of the Romans , supposed to be Jupiter, though he knows not what he says; yet I think it right to note the circumstance that a man of such learning was unable to suppose that this God had no existence or was contemptible, but believed Him to be the same as the supreme God . In fine, He is the God whom Porphyry , the most learned of the philosophers , though the bitterest enemy of the Christians , confesses to be a great God , even according to the oracles of those whom he esteems gods. Chapter 23. -- Porphyry's Account of the Responses Given by the Oracles of the gods Concerning Christ. For in his book called ?? ?????? ?????????? , in which he collects and