he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which it is not granted man to utter. Paul had sat, indeed, at the feet of Gamaliel, but what was that to the depths of the infused knowledge of God? Again, the fact of revelation is attested by the comparatively recent writers of the New Testament, by the Fathers of the Church,, and even by Pagan authors. It is because the Scriptures are the revealed word of God that we find in them the frequent recurrence of such expressions as: " The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:" or: "The word of the Lord came to me, saying: " or: "The revelation of Jesus Christ to His servant John," etc. St. Paul (Gal. i. 11) asserts the fact of revelation, saying emphatically: " I give you to understand, Brethren, that the Gospel which was preached by me is not according to man, for neither did I receive it of man, nor did I learn it; but by the revelation of God," and St. Peter indicates in a few words the primary author of all the books of both Testaments, saying: " Prophecy came not by the will of man at any time; but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost." On the other hand, the greatest geniuses of Pagan times, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Cicero, etc., after long years of study and research succeeded only in involving themselves in inextricable doubts and difficulties concerning such fundamental verities as the existence of God and the immortality of the soul; so that the phenomenon of a Christian world in peaceful possession of these first principles of truth and morality, together with all they imply and entail,
