"They were stoned," he says — Moses surely, Jeremiah, and other Saints of the Old Testament — "they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they died by the edge of the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts, in mountains and caves, and in the hollows of the earth;" and this, "that they might find a better resurrection; and therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run with patience the race set before us."