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Did you never read of one who says, in words very like your version of the Baron's reverie: 'It came to pass, that, as I took my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me: and I fell on the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ?' In the short space of four years the newspapers contained three several cases, two of which I cut out, and still have among my ocean of papers, and which, as stated, were as nearly parallel, in external accompaniments, to St.Paul's as cases can well be:--struck with lightning,--heard the thunder as an articulate voice,--blind for a few days, and suddenly recovered their sight.

But then there was no Ananias, no confirming revelation to another.

This it was that justified St.Paul as a wise man in regarding the incident as supernatural, or as more than a providential omen.

N.B.Not every revelation requires a sensible miracle as the credential; but every revelation of a new series of 'credenda'.

The prophets appealed to records of acknowledged authority, and to their obvious sense literally interpreted.