God declar'd likewise, "that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years.

there certain Epicurean and Stoick philosophers encountred him: "what does this mountebank mean?" said some: "he seems to proclaim some strange deitys," said others: because he talk'd to them of Jesus and the resurrection.

for what you say sounds so very strange, we should be glad to know what it means.