Universal Truth

Venerable Bede Translating the Gospel of John, by JD Penrose

I'm starting a new book in my studies, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede.The following quote from his preface caught my eye.

     " For if history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate
     what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men, the devout, religious listener or reader is
     encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and perverse and to follow what he knows to be good and
     pleasing to God. " 

It reminded me greatly of a quote from a book I read last year by Livy, The Early History of Rome.

     "The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the
     infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for
     yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things
     rotten through and through, to avoid." 

Isn't it amazing that two men separated by almost seven hundred years, thousands of miles and total different cultures and religions (one Christian and the other a pagan) can express the same thought?!  Isn't it amazing that God's Truth is so universal that even pagans can recognize it? 

Romans 1: 20,  " For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and the Godhead; so that they are with out excuse:".