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shirt of Pau! was deeply affected ny
this treatment is evident from the tone
Of his epistles. But under the circum'
stances how could the apostles nave
acted otherwise? An impossible gun
senarated him from them. jewish
PRIESTS and prophets had always SAD
that the caIamities Of the nation were
produced by disregarding the Mosaic
law. The apostles were TOO Ignorant
and bigoted to believe or listen WIN
no,icncc to any other idea. And there
fore we could expect them to have but
little if any sympathy for a man VINO
said that the law was merely . schoo'
master to bring them to Christ; ana
that circumcising their Children ana
keeping holy the Sabbath day, were no
longer necessary. But Pal vas d
shrewd man. He knew, as did the
statesmen of his country, that the days
of the jewish nation were numbered
that in q little while it would be llnpos-
sible. to offer sacrifices upon an altar IN
Jerusalem as the law required; ana
that the Gentiles would not accept tue
religion which he preached If they were
required to accept also the ceremonial
law. Necessity, therefore, prompted
, him to take the position tina. CHRIST IS
the end OF the law to all that believe ;
and the progress Of events demons'Ia'
ted the wisdom Of his course. "A, ~
F. 70 the city Of Jerusalem was totally
destroyed by the Roman army under
Titus. A million lives were lost. Anu
n the sect of the Nazarenes, as the Jew
ish disciples Of Christ were Called van
G ishcd from the face of the earth. Inc
probability is that Peter and the Other
h apostles persisted with the city. Ant
z as Paul was freed in this way from th'
Il adverse influence of those who wer'
c perpetually seeking TO humillate him
it became sn easier matter TO eXten'
his system of religion over the Roma
s Empire. But to accomplish this pur
: pose, now that "tAe city OF the Grea
n King" had been trodden under TOO
/ by a foreign foe, 1t became more tina
IS ever necessary to have histories labrl
8 Gated of the life Of Christ, containin.
d accounts of miracles and also OF pre-
a. dictions of future events which aitel
a ward came TO pass. And in order t
1T make the new system as paIatable q
ii possible to those whose hatred Of tn
o Jews was ineradicab!e, the Roma
d Government must be represented
y the friend of Christ and the leadin
n. men Of the jewish nation, the men {
le wealth, learning and liberality Of sent
is ment, as his bitter and vindictive el
emies. Miracles must be imputed ais
lie to Paul, because this would give hi
great consequence among the conino
t. people, who were iut! of superstition
a And inasmuch as different systems {
Of philosophy we're prevalent, Christ mus
Id be represented as the Messiah as I'll
l. Son Of God and lastly, as God hin
he self so that he might he all things
~ all men. But these histories must NJ
st he attributed to Paul, because th
10 would excite suspicion. And beside
they must purpOrt to have been write
by those who were cye-wItnesscs {
s what occurred. Bat notwithstandln
D. the ingenuity displayed by the perpc
9. traitors Of this fraud, we now kn0
OF that Paul was the real author Of Chris
tianity, and that Lake bore the san
n, relation to Paul that Shaphan did
OF Hiikiah, the author VI Judaism. III
gospel of Luke and the book Of Ac
e. are nothing more than %lcarsay test
he mony at most, which is not competed
mt evidence; but We can see from Il
4 style of these books that Luke was
m literary man Of fertile imagination wi
e- could readily have written Il Cozen 90
pels instead of fOul if Paul had COnsl
e. cred it necessary. Indeed, all the ci
IN cumstantial evidence indicates that Il
rs New Testament was an imposition vi
I'd on the common people Of the Rom'
Empire. And when we think Of IL
IN hatred, and strife, and misery whit
We this fraud has produced, we can tru
IL say that it would have been far bett
VI for the word if Paul had never lived.
e, For the reasons before mentione
r the Bible cannot be admitted as c'
Up dencc to prove that miracles have o
1t cured, and therefore the Theologit
IS has no means Of proving the existen
l. of q God. j. Il. b.
Ut THE END.