_ 219 _ The message being all the more credible as coming from the enemy, they say that the rest of our fleet, which as I said above was left at Zacothora, launched such attacks and brought such terror upon the Saracens along those sea coasts that several towns of Arabia have fallen, including the greatest and most famous market-town of that coast, called Armum which Ptolemy calls Armusa [Ormuz], situated in the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Wise men will grant that it has been subdued under our dominion in that wonderful mystery of divine power by which those who proudly boast a terrible mastery over other great and powerful nations of the world, will submit to our men, a little Christian flock, in praise of the great Christian name and in the most auspicious expectation of the future triumph of the church of Christ over the whole world. Truly, Most Holy Father, since this is an expression of the right hand of God, who can doubt or not recognise that the hand of the Lord has done all these things. God who does whatever he wishes in heaven and on earth, who performs his will in Babylon and raises his arm against the Chaldaeans? Who therefore will turn aside his extended hand? Or who will deny what has already been decreed? To be sure, I have deliberately omitted many other evidences worthy of report, attesting to the divine
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