But that this also may already become plain to you—that whatever we say, having learned it from Christ and from the prophets who went before him, is alone true and older than all the writers who have existed; and that we ask to be accepted not because we say the same things as they, but because we speak the truth; and that Jesus Christ alone was in a special manner begotten as Son to God, being his Word and first-born and power, and becoming man by his will, taught us these things for the transformation and restoration of the human race; and that, before he became man among men, certain ones, namely the aforementioned wicked demons, anticipating this, said through the poets, as if already accomplished, the things which they fabricated in myth—just as they have also wrought the blasphemous and impious deeds said against us, of which there is no witness nor proof—of these things we shall make our refutation.