Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-18
Description Of the Savior.

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4 correspondent of the Sunday Trans
crypt few weeks since sent to that pa
per the following letter from Lentulus.
Governor of Jerusalem, to the Senate
aud people of Rome, giving description
of the person'of Christ, which has never,
We believe, been printed in this country,
and it may. therefore. prove interesting
to many readers: ..--
There has lately appeared in these
parts man of singular virtue, vino is yet
alive. named Jesus Christ, whom the
Genties call the Prophet of Truth, and
his followers cah him the Son of God
He cures ali distempers and redeems the
dead themselves. As to his person, he
is tall and comely, Of a venerable aspect.
which gives both love and awe. His
hair, bright and curling and flowing down
his shoulders, parted in the middle. after
the Nazarite mode. His countenance
plain and NEST open; his face withou.
spot or wrinkle and adorned with mol
est blush His nose and mouth of
graceiul turn a beard forked. large
though not long, and red as his hair; his
eyes bright and voluble. When he rep.
rehends, terrible when he admonishes,
| amiable and pleasant az is consistent with
gravity. He has never been seen to
laugh, but often to weep. His discourse
is modest and grave, without loquacity;
his limbs justly proportioned, and to the
eye agreeable and beautiful among the
sons of men,
To the above the correspondent of the
Transcript adds the following letter from
Pontius Plate to the Emperor Tiberius,
acguainting him with the life, miracles.
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Il am witness of the Jews entailing
misery ossthemselves and their posierity,
prompted by pernic;ous envy to an ur-
just and cruel sentence The express
declaration Of the oracles established
among them by the venerable authority
of their ancestors promised the coming of
their God by the medium of young
virgin to be their prince. And these or-
acles had their event in the time Of ny
government Of Judea. for there is scarce
a man in these parts but is a witness of
his giving sight to the blind, cleansing
the leprous and ccring the lame. lie, in
the eyes of all men. drove out devils and
delivered those that were possessed with
unclean spirits. From the graves he re-
vived the dead. the tempestuous winds
obeyed him, and the waves, like firm
land, supported him. These and vast
number of other miracles, got him the
title of the Son of God. But the envy
and hatred of the Chief Priests tempted
them to an open opposition of him, which
ended lately in seizing him and bringing
him as a criminal before me, laden with
the odious names of magician, deserter.
oppugner of and apostate to the laws of
their country. Deceived by their spe-
cious pretences aud believing their eager
complaints. caused him, pursuant to the
Roman laws, to be scourged. and AFTER
wards delivered him into their hands to
be proceeded against according to their
own customs and laws. In pursuit of
these they condemned and hung him
upon cross, and when his friends were
permitted to bury his body they set
guard of soldiers over hin, Of which num-
Der were several of my troops, who be-
held him aIise the third day from the
dead But in nothing did the villainy of
the Jews more appear than in extending
their malice beyond the grave. 6y bribing.
with large rewards. the soldiers to say
shat his disciples came by night and stole
him away. The soldiers took the money.
However, they everywhere declare that
they saw both the vision of angels and
JeSuj rise from the deal These things
l thought it my duty to acquaint you
with lest any one. through the false. in
sinuating arts of the jews, should en-
deavor to impose on you in 30 important
a matter of fact