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thus they would depart for home, and the prophet brings their counsels into the open and says: everything will stop at words. Then, since he announced matters surpassing human nature, making his word trustworthy, he resorts to the authority of the one who brings it to pass, continually saying, That God is with us and that he himself will scatter all these devices.

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οὕτως οἴκαδε ἀπελεύσεσθαι, καὶ τὰ βουλεύματα αὐτῶν ὁ προφήτης εἰς μέσον ἄγει καί φησι· μέχρι τῶν ῥημάτων ἅπαντα στήσεται. Εἶτα ἐπειδὴ πράγματα ἀπήγγειλε φύσιν ἀνθρωπίνην ὑπερβαίνοντα, ἀξιόπιστον ποιῶν τὸν λόγον, ἐπὶ τὸ ἀξίωμα τοῦ κατορθοῦντος καταφεύγει, συνεχῶς λέγων, Ὅτι μεθ' ἡμῶν ὁ Θεὸς καὶ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἅπαντα ταῦτα διασκεδάσει τὰ μηχανήματα.