Litchfield enquirer., 1846-01-01
Death Warrant of Christ !!

The Courier des Estats Unis, of a late
dale, says :-Chance has put into our
hands the most imposing and interesting
judicial document, to all Christians, that
has ever been yecorded IT, human annals,
that Is, the identical death warrant of our
Lord Jesus Christ. We transcrbe the
document from canss of tho sssst.visssie'.s :
- SENTENCE,
RenderedRby Pontius PLATE, Acting Gov
ernor Of Lower Galilee. that Jesus of
Nazareth shall suffer on the Cross.
In the year seventeen of the Empire of
Tiberius Caesar, and the 25th day of
March, in the City of Holy Jerusalem !;
Annas and Caiaphas being Priests, sac.
fiicators of the people of God. Pontus
Plate, Governor of Lower Galilee, sitting
on the Presidential chair of the Pratory,
condemns Jesus Of Nazareth to die on the
Cross between two theiyes-the great
and notorious evidence ofthe people say
ing:
/. He is seducer.
2. He is seditious.
8. He is an enemy of the law.
A. He calls himself, falsely, the Son of
God.
5. He calls himself King OF Israel.
6. He entered into the temple followed
by multitude, bearing palm branches in
their hands. -,. ...,
Order the first centurion Quintus Cor
nelius, to lead him to the place of execu-
! ton.
Forbid any person whomsoever. either
poor or rich, to oppose the death ofJesus.
The witnesses that signed the death OF
Jesus are:
LIST. Daniel Robani, a Pharisee.
End. Joannus Horobable.
3rd. Capet, citizen.
Jesus shall go out of the city by the
gate " Strenuous"
/ The above sentences are engraved on
a. copper plate on one sido is written
these v ords
"a similar plate is sent 10 each of the
tribes"
II was found Ia an antique vase of
white marble, while excavating in the
city AquilIa, in the kingdom of Naples,
10 the year 1925, and was Discovers by
the commissariat of Arts, attached TO the
French Armies. At the expedition of
Naples it was found enclosed in box of
ebony, in the sacristy of Gurtem. The
vase is now in the Chapel or Caserta.-
The French translation was made by the
members of the Commission of Arts
The children. requested earnestly that
the plate might otahe taken away from
them. The request was granted as re-.
ward for the army. NJ. Demon, one of
the Swans, caused plate 10 be made of
the model, on which he had engraved the
above sentence |; at the sale ofhis collec-
| ton of curiosities, it was bought by Lord
Toward, for Eve thousand eight hundred
and eighty francs.
THE AGE OF THE GLoBE.-For those who
are disinclined to enter INTO the abstrusi-
ties of general chronology, it may be
sufficient 10 notice that the age of the
world, and the number of years which
have elapsed from The creation. TO the ma
tivity Of Christ, are involved in deffice-
ties from which they appear 10 be mex
;ricabic. Some fix ihe'epoch of the ma
tivity in the year 1915, while others go
back to the year 64S4. and others adopt
intermediate years. The variation in the
principal copies of the Old Testament
have occasioned this diversity of opinion.
The Hebrew codex, to which preference
is generally assigned, fixes. the Deluge
in The year Of the world 1856, the Sama-
ritan codex in 1907, and the Greek codex
or septuagint version, in 2252. The Pc
riod which follows the Deluge for nine
generations, the number computed from
the creation, does not offer smaller vari-