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He wanders over Roman history, and over Greek philosophy and

mythology, and finds everywhere crime, impiety and falsehood. He

compares the worst parts of the Gentile religions with the best

elements of the faith of Christ. He shows nothing of the spirit

which led others of the early Christian Fathers to recognize in

the writings of the Greek philosophers the power of the divine

truth. He traces the parallel of the kingdom of God, that is, the

history of the Jews, contained in their scriptures, and of the

kingdoms of the world, which are found in gentile writers, and

pursues them both into an ideal future. It need hardly be

remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and

of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. The

heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the

dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of

fact.