Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-12-07
The Name "Jesus-"
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 be the implied sacrilegious blasphemy in the words, "Jesus get me a cock tail" The name "Jesus," in Spanish, IS pronounced as though spelled Hay soos, the accent on the second syl- lable: and the first syllable pronounced short. "G. w. D." goes off into holy fits. or sanctimonious spasms, simply because his Indian mo2o was very properly named Jesus de Git-over-the- Fence; and in giving vent to his hor- TOT at this specimen of sacrilege 'G.
 w. D." calls it, "such hideous blas- nhemv." Will "G. w. D." or some
 one else, please explain why this IS
 "hideous blasphemS? ?" Had his cop
 per-colored mozo been named John,
 James. or Joshua, would this fact, too,
 have been, "hideous blasphemy?" The
 name Jesus is just as common as
 either James, John or Joshua, and Ii
 ''hideous blasphemy" in one case, It IS
 the same in all three eases. To tell
 the unvarnished truth, "though the
 heavens fall, ,""G. w. D." simply shows
 to the public his utter ignorance of
 very plain and simple fact. At the time that the alleged "Jesus" of the 1 christians was on earth, and hundreds
 of years prior thereto, as also up to
 the present time, there were then and
 are now, many persons bearing the
 name Jesus; many of them were
 of sufficient importance, politically
 and religiOusly, to deserve mention ot |
 Josephus, ill his history of the Jewish |
 nation. Are we then to infer that "G.
 n ,, mt nf fhCgn SIOlnlp ]
 historical facts that he believes there
 was only one Jesus, and that one "hls
 Lord and Savior" and for anyone else
 to bear that "holy" name is "hideous
 blasphemy?" If not this, what then please? In Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews," book IS, chapter III, in the third verse, he says: "Now there was, about this time, Jesus, wise man,
 *" However the whole of chap s ter three, with the exception ot the ], third verse, treats of a sedition among . the Jews; the second verse of thls Q chapter ends with these words: "And thus an end was put to this sedltlon. l The fourth verse of this same chapter
 begins with these words: "About the n same time also another sad calamity a put the Jews into disorder" The lan- V guage of the whole chapter, exclusive is of the third verse, goes to prove con n clusively and without doubt, that the IS third verse is unquestionably an inter-
 polation as neither the preceding, nor m the verse following, have any intelil- ts gent relation to the third verse; andi "a furthermore, this third verse can be ,r left out in toto, leaving the sense ano n, continuity of the chapter complete
 In book IS, chapter III, the following I. language is used: "lt was Antlochu' uS Epiphanes who first brake the law n |" and deprived Jesus, and made hi. ne brother Onias high priest in his stead U! This Antiochus Epiphanes was Syrl
 an monarch, by many considered tn It Cog of the prophet Ezekiel, who mad 'st war against the Jews, overcoming then ter in battle, captured their capital city les Jerusalem, plundered the temple an
 in word. made himself superlatiyel Ills obnoxious to the circumcised. Tn rts Claw" referred to by the distinguishe rge author, which was first brake by til
 Syrian monarch, was the Jewish cccle rA- laSllC0l ldW, MIlC NltlllCo tiiN s"t'NNc on- ity of the secular powers to interlel yas with the rites and ceremonies of u
 church or in other words, u - right to remove the high priest and a9 TT substitute another. The author sa &tl3is was. done by "Antiochus Fl
 4.a.atles syho first. brakesthat law !. at k..nlS |. chapter " tsAt Ars of the Jew coFsS alter speaking of tie many curio
 land remarkable phenomena which { olo- cured at various times, for period . several years prior to the siege of
 rusalem by Titus, and during the p
 curatorship of Albinus, amongst oth matters he says: "But, what IS si
 more terrible, there was one Jes TIN the son of Ananus, plebelan and
 husbandman, who, four years bef'
 the war began, and at time when
 city was in very great peace and pr peritv, came to that feast Whereon
 is our custom for everyone to m;
 tabernacles to God in the temple,
 gan on a sudden to cry aloud, "A vo ood from the east, voice from the W' I ov- voice from the four winds, vC SoIo- against Jerusalem and the holy hot went d voice against the bridegrooms | I of the brides, and a volce against cina people," However, certain of 'Tor,s populace becoming tired of this on nlied bus yell, they caught the crazy fell irrov and gave him a severe whipping, bu i'd to to no purpose, for the crank contln nnar9, his warning cry. "Hereupon," tbe the author, tour rulers, supposinG if Lo the case proved to be, that this tben a sort of divine fury in the n ,nadi- brought him to the Roman proc essTnl tor, where he was whipped till his b' This were laid bare." Finally, Alb end took him to be madman, and I tho missed him." In the twelfth boo nvsti- Antiquities" chapter V, which re nsnlt- principally of the expedition of A s and chus against Jerusalem, the au ,t fine says: "About this time, upon that death of Onias the high priest, ion of gave the high priesthood to Jesus
 Ora brother. But this Jesus, who wa In act brother of Onias, was deprived oi doctor high priesthood by the king, who nd on angry with him, and gave 1t to , door younger brother, whose name was osse of Onias." In book ?, chapter N robam find another Jesus, son of SapI IF ear who was made a general of the J( them army. Again, in book 20, chapte
 The the historian says; "Festus was ma to dead, and Albinus was but upol nlentv road Ananus, the high prles inouir- sembled the Sanhedrim oi judges ,g and brought before them the brotl
 said Jesus, whose, name was James i've af- some others, and when he had fl doctor an accusation against them as five he CTS of the law, he delivered the 70 anv- be stoned to death" In book 1, a den ter V, we find mention of another mercy us, the eldest of the high priests, ,id that makes a speech to the seditious- if den withstanding this harangue 1t seel II trick seditious element overcame the and if party; "for they" says the authc q there sus and others), "were cast out ',nlo;r- and seen to be the food of dog ored to wild beasts. And this at last w. 'nt tboy end Gf Apauus and Jesus"