ng message is that the God of truth would not work miracles for a false Church; accordingly, the Church that is favored and explained by God (and so by Bede) is the one that is to be followed.
As the History draws to a conclusion, the tone of the writing alters in a way that makes the content seem everincreasingly anagogic, spiritually prescient, a bit more declamatory, a bit more prophetic. All this is by way of saying that Bede seems ineluctably to be formulating a kind of English mythos, predicated of the peculiar society being developed by the meeting of British and Roman-Church cultures. It is in Book V, for example, there is a concentration of stories of miracles and of individual experiences of divin
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