Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
Certain signs precede certain events.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?