Boos 1.] . ARNOBIUS ADVERSUS GENTES. 51


The reasons why he chose to-do it in this way, and did
not choose to do it in that, are unknown, being involved
in so great obscurity, and comprehensible by scarcely any;
but these you might perhaps have understood if you were
not already prepared not to understand, and were not shaping
your course to brave unbelief, before that was explained to
you which you sought to know and to hear.
