I direct you.” It is no human passions, then, which we ascribe to God, nor impious opinions which we entertain of Him; nor do we err when we present the various narratives concerning Him, drawn from the Scriptures themselves, after careful comparison one with another. For those who are wise ambassadors of the “word” have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endue them with intelligence. Footnote 762: Cf. Ps. vi. 1. Footnote 763: Cf. Jer. x. 24. Footnote 764: Cf. Eph. ii. 3. Footnote 765: Cf. Ps. xxxvii. 8. Footnote 766: Cf. Col. iii. 8. Footnote 767: Ps. xliv. 23. Footnote 768: Cf. Ps. lxxviii. 65. Chapter LXXIII. And as a sequel to his non-understanding of the statements regarding the “wrath” of God, he continues: “Is it not ridiculous to suppose that, whereas a _man_, who became angry with the Jews, slew them all from the youth upwards, and burned their city (so powerless were they to resist him), the mighty _God_, as they say, being angry, and indignant, and uttering threats, should, [instead of punishing them,] send His own _Son_, who endured the sufferings which He did?” If the Jews, then, after the treatment which they dared to inflict upon Jesus, perished with all their youth, and had their city consumed by fire, they suffered this punishment in consequence of no other wrath than that which they treasured up for themselves; for the judgment of God against them, which was determined by the divine appointment, is termed “wrath” agreeably to a traditional usage of the Hebrews. And what the Son of the mighty God suffered, He suffered voluntarily for the salvation of men, as has been stated to the best of my ability in the preceding pages. He then continues: “But that I may speak not of the Jews alone (for that is not my object), but of the whole of nature, as I promised, I will bring out more clearly what has been already stated.” Now what modest man, on reading these words, and knowing the weakness of humanity, would not be indignant at the offensive nature of the promise to give an account of the “whole of nature,” and at an arrogance like that which prompted him to inscribe upon his book the title which he ventured to give it [of a True Discourse]? But let us see what he has to say regarding the “whole of nature,” and what he is to place “in a clearer light.” Chapter LXXIV.