Jews attest the prophecies were not forged; hatred could not make them erase Daniel

Further, that these oracles were not forged by Christians the Jews testify — enemies of the Christians, and yet the keenest assertors and defenders of the prophetic books. And besides, that that greatest hatred of the Christian religion could not compel them to erase from their books those oracles so greatly adverse to themselves — this itself, I say, frees them from the crime of which certain Gentiles wished to render them suspect, as if they had inserted into their books those oracles concerning Cyrus and Alexander the Great in order to court those kings' favor. For if they had thought so much allowed to them, those oracles by which Christians so greatly press them would not have remained untouched, especially that of Daniel concerning the time of Christ's advent and his cutting off. Nor will anyone ever suspect such a thing of the Jews who has ascertained with how great religion — not to say superstition — toward the sacred books they conduct themselves, even to such a degree that they keep the syllables and apices of each book numbered, and appoint a public fast if by chance a Scripture codex has fallen to the ground through carelessness. Add that whoever will attentively read through and consider the books of the Prophets Daniel and Isaiah will easily recognize that in them all things cohere and are woven with the same thread and genius, nor is anything found that anyone could deservedly suspect to have been added and inserted there against the author's mind and sense — and that could be torn away from them without the ruin and gap of the whole work.