National Republican., 1881-07-07
" JESUS NOT A MYTH. 1"
ANswERTo "sTuDENTu AND OTHERS
Authorities to Show the Divinity OF Chrlst-Hcrod
and Pontlus PilAte-Tho Talmud-The
Shipwreck OF Paul-Celsus
and Julian.
Thcophilus Bray sends THE REPUBLICAN,

u great favor to be permitted to answer the same
through the columns Of your valuable paper. lie
says Dr. Lardner gave up Josephus 100 years
ago. Well, Eusebius quoted him 1900 years ago
And the reference Josephus makes to Christ is
found in all tbe known copies, both printed and
manuscript (Schan0 And he says himself II
was his great concern TO write an accurate and
true history, and to omit no facts through igno.
rance or laziness' Rcnan, the nfdel, who wrote
the Life Of Christ considers the passage nuthcn-
tic, md besides this, we have the entire historical
works OF Matthew, Mark, Luke, john and Paul,
who talked with and saw Jesus. What moro can
we wish for? Such evidence would be admitted
In any court In tho third century the inidcls,
with the Emperor Maximin for their leader forged
the acts of plate concerning our Saviour,
which were filled with all sorts of
BLAsPiiEMY AGAINST CHRIST,
and By an imperial dccrcc-thcy were dispersed
through all parts of the empirc-ho commanded
that they should be published to all persons and
that schoolmasters should put them into the
hands OF their pupils TO be committed - memory
tTOwnly, vol. y. The Emperor Julian forbade
Christian professors to teach Gentle learning and
commanded that the writings Of Christian authors
should be destroyed. We have his letter extant
in which he ordered Ecdicius, perfect of Egypt
to destroy all the works Of the impious Galileans
that could be found in the library of George
Bishop of Alexandria (DunCombes JuiarO. In
order to compensate for the loss of classical authors
and to save what they had, ApollinRrii and son
composed grammar on n Christian model and
turned the books OF Moses and the Psalms into
Greek and heroic verse (Townly, vol. y. 1t is no
wonder that we have but the fragments of fclasscal
authors left. That Christ suffered under Pontius
PLATE there can be no doubt. Hear Justin ap.
pcaling to the Emperor Antonius Plus for elem
ency "a. d. 1888 to lGi).
lie TELLS THE EMPEROR
that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and that
lie might convince Himself by the tax.lst, made
IN the time of Cyrcnius, your first governor in
Judea, and that we assert Christ was born $50
years ago, and to have suffered under Pontius pi-
late, and that he did these things he might bo
easily satisfied from the nets of Plate. Now
think of Justin referring the Emperor to these
things If they were not truel But let us examine
the infldels, and see what they have to say. Cell
sus, who wrote A. d. l7G, admitted the birth of
Christ the massacre of Herod Joseph's flight into
Egypt, baptism Of Jesus. Ills disciples, whom he
calls public0ns and wicked sailors he coniesscs
to His crucifixion and resurrection and miracles,
and says He performed these things by magicl
| Julian confessed the same. He admits our
| Lords virgin birth, His enrolment under Cyre
Mus, that He rebuked the winds and the waves,
walked on the sea, and that lie has now been eel
| ebated about 800 years (Thayer). But infdels
have adopted new creed since then. Why do
not they stick to their leaders, CELSIUS and Julian
buss llub uCNln NuEIdllI ~ u Glulusy
fraud, but ho did not prove ii.
TIIE CRY OF FRAUD IS NO PROOF
nor is sarcasm an argument. He says 1t makes
| Annas and Caiaphas high priest at the same time
| There Is hardly Sunday school scholar in the
land but could tell Student how this happened.
The historian Luke says the same thing. V. Gratus
procurator, deposed Annas and appointed Joseph
Caiaphas in his place. The Jews had to submit
| 10 this great indgnity. They now had two high
| DfiQets by n lnNy n Moses mud Inv
hand of u heather ruler. One high priests dc
tdciO and the other de jure QIannA). Annas was
| ruler OF the Sanhedrim and Sagan TO Caiaphas
and without him nothing of moment was done
| (Geikie). Student says the medal makes Pom.
! titus Plate ruler of lower Galce.' The medal
says, lntendant of all the lower province of Cali.
lee which is absolutely correct, viz, Samarla
Judea and ldumea. Herod the Great was ruler over
Galilee and its provinces.
lie PERSUADED ANTONY
| TO make him a king and give him Judea. -4e did
so and ordered Sosius governor of Syria, TO assist
him in the undertaking. Together they raised an
army OF sixty thousand men, laid siege to Jerusa-
lem, which, after n six-months fight, fell, and
thus was Judea annexed to the kingdon4 aC Galilee
and became one OF its lower provinces; and now
was fulfilled the prophesy of Jacob, The sceptre
shall not depart from Judon, &c., until Shiloh
| come (Rol., vol y. After the death OF King
| Herod this lower province Of Galilee was given to
Archelaus, and after his banishment, A. D. Z, hi.
| doT' Iiop aus made Roman province. under pro.
c. vors, subordinate to the president of Syria
/ Carpenter and others. Student asserts thai
PLATE was over Judea only. Liant Carpenter says
| PLATE was Procurator over these districts.
Geikie says: In the seventeenth year Of the reign
Of Tiberius plate had been two years procurator
| over Samaria, Judea, and 1dumea.' Students
assertion simply proves his innocence of anclen
history. on the Punishment Of Archeaus, Herot
did his best to get his fathers kingdom back, bu
| failed (Joscphus). His one consolation was that
as he was the only IIerod, he might assume tn,
name (King) which he seems to have done, b!
his coins from this date (jcikle). Thus we read II
the New Testament, Herod and PLATE were at ell
nifty but when they had Christ to cruelty the,
were made friends. Again, Roman law requireC
an officer and four soldiers to witness all cxecu
tions you have their names in the death warrant
| which fact corresponds with the historian
JoHS WHO WAS Az EYEWITNESS.
"' Tho soldiers therefore, when they had cruclhe(
| Jesus took his garment and made four parts.
Also Luke: And when the Centurion saw wha
was done, he glorihed God, saying This was a
righteous man. Dr. Strong 1881, In lnternationa
Sunday School Lessons, fixes the date Of the cru
cifxion March is, which Is within one week o
the medal. Student asserts that the first thrc,
gospels say the cruclfXion took place on Friday
the great day Of the Passover This is astonish
| ihb' Inv NOiu rllduS hSNtI OSCNlo III tHc NCN
Testament He has revised his New Testamen
as well as history! lie next says the 'Talmut
never mentions n Jesus Cruciied, but speaks o
one stoned to death A. d. 75. The Talmud 4
divided into two parts-the Mishn0 and Gemara-
and there are two Gemaras, both of which alud,
to Christ and the apostles briefly, and in bite
and malignant spirit they admit the miracles o
Christ, but say that he learned the magical arts ii
Egypt and prNcticcd them in Palestine, for whcl
rpnkOu and fDr instipnIinu the Igraplitpg 10 Nyn
crucihcd on the day preceding the Passoye
(Schah). But our historical student has saye'
his BEST THINGS FOR THE LAST.
"Hesays Paul was probably disciple of Jesus
and that he lived siXty-three years, b. G.
Simply because he says, hewas in Damascus whol
Arctas was king. And as JosephuS mentions NJ
Aretas king b. C. g. he concludes that Paul live
under him. Student does not seem to rccog
niIe the fact that Aretas had become n royal till
same as Cesar; hence Aretas d. c. and Arctas II
inuls day are two persons widely apart, His
torans tell US that the Aretas of Paul's time wa
named .Encas aud that he succeeded Oboda.
This Aretas Kncas was king over the powerful
NRbatcans, whose territory was conterminous
that OF llcrod. Horod married the daughter G
Eneas and allerwRrd divorced her that he Nigh
marry the wife Of his half.brother. This an
SINE trouble about the boundary of Gamitits, le
To war In which the army of HerOd was defeated
But that Paul was In Damascus under this Arcta
can be proved by his own writings in the sam
chapter Student has quoted, Paul says he wa
shipWrecked and by a little search We find PAT
was brought TO trial before AgrIPpa and took a
appeal to Cesar. and on.
HIS WAY TO ROME He WAS sHIPwGECRED.
at student never appears in the columns
, TnE REPUBLICAN until he explains how Paul AZ
peared before King Agrippa, and thence TO C,csF
one hundred and twenty-five years before the
lived, II win be long time before we hear froi
his historical pen again In the meantime i
might apply 10 Charon and have him transfer b
cram to the River Cocytus, and together make
, voyage down as far as the second century, an
wake up the shades of the departed. Ask Cclsu