Sacred history proves itself by ingenuousness, surviving names, and appeal to living witnesses
Add that sacred history in many places proves itself by its own sincerity and plausibility, and has those notes of truth which every honest historian has, as may be seen in the books of Samuel and of Kings. Names of nations, cities, and regions that once were and still remain today also create faith for what Scripture narrates concerning Noah's posterity, from whom after the flood the world began to be inhabited anew and filled with dwellers — plain to anyone who compares those names Moses recites with the names of peoples and nations. But the things that seem to surpass belief, and are wondrous and plainly stupendous, are written so that the writer cannot have lied: he appeals to innumerable witnesses who could have refuted him, yet who received his writings as divine and so commended them to posterity — as was shown above concerning the miracles Moses narrates, and of which mention is made in the Apostle Paul.
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XXXIX. Adde quod Historia sacra in multis ipsa se probat sua ingenuitate, et verisimilitudine, habetque eas veritatis notas, quas habent probi quique historici, ut videre est in libris Samuelis et Regum. Gentium quoque, urbium et regionum nomina, quae fuerunt olim, et hodie remanent, fidem creant iis quae Scriptura narrat de posteris Noe a quibus post diluvium orbis de novo habitari coepit, et incolis repleri, ut planum sit conferenti nomina illa, quae Moses recitat cum populorum et gentium nominibus. Quae vero fidem videntur superare, et miranda sunt ac plane stupenda, eo modo scripta sunt, ut impossibile sit, qui scripsit esse mentitum, quandoquidem provocat ad testes innumeros a quibus revinci potuit, qui tamen ejus scripta tanquam divina susceperunt, et pro talibus posteris commendârunt: ut supra ostensum est de miraculis quae a Mose narrantur, et de quibus apud Paulum Apostolum mentio.