The world's rapid faith in the Gospel makes Scripture's divinity credible; Paul from Jerusalem to Illyricum
Next, that the doctrine and that Scripture which we hold as divine are truly divine is made very credible by the faith which the world has given them. For in a few years the Gospel of Christ pervaded almost the whole world; and as soon as it began to be preached to the nations, it found countless followers everywhere, of every age, sex, and condition — so much so that one Paul, from Jerusalem even to Illyricum, in a very short space of time filled all things with the Gospel of Christ, as he himself writes to the Romans (Romans 15:19). But that could not have come about except from a divine force that accompanied that sacred doctrine, and, as the same Paul notes in the place cited, from the power of the divine Spirit engraving it on men's hearts and confirming it with various prodigies and signs.
Latin
XIII. Deinde doctrinam et Scripturam illam, quam pro divina habemus, vere divinam esse, valde credibile reddit fides, quae illi in mundo habita est. Paucis enim annis Evangelium Christi totum fere orbem pervasit; et statim atque coepit gentibus praedicari, innumeros invenit ubique sectatores, omnis aetatis, sexus et conditionis: adeo ut unus Paulus ab Hierosolymis in Illyricum usque, brevi admodum temporis spatio, omnia repleverit Evangelio Christi, sicut ipse scribit ad Romanos c.15. Istud autem provenire non potuit nisi a vi quadam divina, quae doctrinam illam sacram comitata est: et ut notat idem Paulus loco citato, a virtute divini Spiritus, illam cordibus hominum insculpentis, variisque prodigiis et signis confirmantis.