The Holy Death - Told Us In The New Testament Narratives Concerning The Trial, Condemnation And Death Of Jesus Of Nazareth (1886) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BT 30 1 76604 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord, 1886, by EEV. H. M. PAYNTEB, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Gallop Bros., Printers, 115 S. II At.stzd 8r. THE HOLY DEATH. chapter{Section 4PREFACE. Christianity rests on a historical basis. The traces which it has left on Jewish and heathen literature, are too many and deep to allow its reality to be called in question. The Talmud of Babylon gives the names of three of the Apostles, Matthew, Thaddeus and James. The Talmud of Jerusalem says: "The name of Jesus is forbidden. It were better to die than to hear that name." In defaming, it admits His miraculous power, or, at least, His claim to it. Josephus, in the annals of his times, speaks of a movement which he cannot understand, and to which he is indifferent. -But he recognizes the fact. His statement about James, the Lord's brother, (Ant. xix, 9,1) has not been questioned: "Annas, the high priest, assembled the Sanhedrim, and brought before it James, the brother of Him who is called Christ, and having charged him with breaking the laws, delivered him over to be stoned." And his well-known passage (Ant. xviii, 3, 3) though questioned by some, is recognized as authentic by Renan: "In those times appeared Jesus, a wise man, the author of extraordinary acts, having for disciples those who love truth. He gathered around Him many Jews and Greeks. They did not renounce the love they had pledged to Him, even after Pilate had condemned Him to the cross, at the demand of the chiefs of the nation. The body of the christians who have called themselves by His name, have remained faithful to Him to this day." While the Jews reject Him as Messiah, there is, perhaps, not chapter{Section 5Ill an intelligent on...