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 ingenuousness and likelihood, and has those notes of truth which every honest historian has, as may be seen in the books of Samuel and of Kings. The 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.