The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-10-01
ApocrypAn, Evidences OF Christianity.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The Rev.
Dr. Tamage is reported in Tar sus of Sept saying
picture on the wall Of city, recently exposed ny
GSri.t Vas Isa sy many il his %.SS: rspTs.sM;s
scTipon Jesus tie Christ whom the people worship"
This is probably second hand reference to supposed
caricature Of Christ crucied, fac snile of which 10
given In a book published in London, 1865, entitled
"Gnostics and their Remains" transcribe therefrom
the following passage:
BY thi. too we are enabled rightly to understand
hold WHICH The jasksl figure nailed to tho
Cllexsmenos WORKSHOPS dob, in reality the work of some
%ai because IS the head IL use
for that Of an ass.
The original picture preserved in Italian
man with jacksss head is extended cross, be.
side which stands AeSan,enos with appraised hands.
But the idea Of ASS head in derison Of Christian
ity first appears about D. 300 later when Tertul
liam wrote this passage;
the world in that ci,y Rome; originated with
Wild %1% um WHO IF rf ps eu Il
tbs inssrip9n Tie God Of the cIrisiians Of
book md fa wore the name On" %
a to ha1s %Sns 10 s
1 d Of sk a"E ss
like lons with serpent legs with wings sproutng frou
another paper adduces alleged discovery of copper
plated tableon which is inscribed the following:
IN the year Of the empire Of Thern Cesar and ITO
PrGtory condemn Jesus Of Nazareth to die on til. cross
between two thieves, Quintns Cornelius to lead him ~
h,sa,, I'oS'. rhar'ee 5 5o,sSss I nsnni;
Various versions OF this pretended discovery have
lately appeared In every the dates and
differ. one account dates the discovery 1870 another
in 1929. third in l2so and now DR.. Tamage il cor
recy reported has it in 2OD One version has death
sentence March ~, another March - and another
March ot-whch last is Dr. Tamayes date. The plate is
said TO he in the chapel of Caserta six miles south
been bought by Lord Howard for 29So francs. I
suspect thar such plate exists but whether II
does pronounce it "a big fraud as the pretended
plates OF the book OF Mormon Assuming that March ~
is clerical typographical and that March "a IL
the date OF the pretended relic sufficient exposure
which Jesus is said to have been crucihcd
before March ~. (chamb. Enc)
Furthermore the seventeenth year Of Therius CGsar
A. 81. But the latest authorities compelled
abandon all other dstes for the crucaxion bat A. ID. %
which agrees only with the ancient authorities but
with recently discovered Syriac documents of very
early period Clement of Alexandria ami Tertulan
positively affirm that suffered in the fifteenth year
Of Tiberius-i e., A. u. 10.
The creduty Of Dr. TSnsge is further shown in quot
ing from the sprocryplia Report Of pate to T1crus
Csrsar" these words:
In all the world they lighted candles from untl
evening
why dnt the Doctor quote the preceding sentence of
the report, which that Archelals (who had beeu
dead some went, years of those who delivered
up Jesu. To he crnciied' And how about Pilates fur.
ther Of the full being like blood and not
shining at al while the slone fort more brilliant
than before and ceased not all the following night.
See "Apocrypha Gospels, Acts and Revelations Anti
Nic-ue Christian Library Vol xvi.-f"r different yer.
sions of this and other apocr!pial literature.