Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-11

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TO examine many Of these papers. Only In
1855 certain Don Jose Ferrer de Couto
claimed that he had made a very interest
ing ma among these moldy acts. Enclosed
In an iron cylinder he had found parch-
ment on which was written I'm the Hebrew
isngua&e what purporteo to be the death
sentence OF Christ by Pontius PLATE. and
bore the following annota ton: Found IN the
ruins OF church at Aquila, in the Abrusxi,
Italy, In the year 1850"
The following is the literal translation
press in the year OF its discovery:
| General Archives OF simancas
Affairs OF State.
Act Parcel s47. Rome. No l.
| Copy or the sentence OF condemnation %
Christ by Pontius PLATE.
In the 18th year Of the reign OF Tfberiua
Caesar. Roman Emperor. and unconquered
tse OF r. sne , world IN the i2lss Olympia
ton OF the world: according TO the Hebrew
csicuistion the 80 year OF the Roman
reign and the il3th year since the return
from the Babylonian captivity; Lucius
Pisinus. Pontifere Ms ximus and Much.
Sauricus, being Pro-consuls OF the unc al.
querable Valerius Palestinus Governor Of
Jndea. and Flayius ouartue Praes q
Gratissimus and Governor Of the City 4
Jerusalem; Pontius PLATE. Governor 70
Lower Galilea: Anss ard Caiphas. Patriarch
ana High Priest; Ales Maclos. Guard of the
| Temple and Quintus Sublimny and sextus
Pompilius Rufus. Centurions OF the Ror- n
Consuls: On this day. MARCH 18th L
fontius Plate. representative OF the Re nan
Empire. here at the palace OF Larchi, my
ofncial residence, do judge and condemn
TO the penalty OF death. Jesus. called Christ
the Nazaren, from the country Of Galilea,
and man OF the Mosaic law. an instigatos
TO revolt against the Roman Emperor,
Tiberius Caesar. having found him ruiIty
on the following points: For gathering
around him crowd OF people rich and
poor, and creating disturbances In all
Galilea for calling himself the son OF God
and King OF Israel; for threatening the
Holy Empire and the City of Jerusalem
with Destruction: for refusing tribute 70
Caesar. and for daring 20 make a trfumphai
entry like a prince into the city and the
! temple. followed by a multitude OF people
bearing palms: for this he shall suffer death
on the cross i command. therefore. my
centurion. Quintus Cornelius 70 apprehend
Jesus, 10 have him scourged, clothed in
purple and crowned with thorns; to have
him bear his cross publicly through the
streets, and have him conducted through
the gate called Antonio TO Mount Calvary
| where his body shall be crucifed between
two malefactors and remain exposed as q
warning 10 transgressors. On the cross
shall be affixed an Inscription in three Ian
guages. In Hebrew. in Greek and Latin. In
Hebrew, ALoI ALIsIDINi In Greek,
| IEsOS NAZARENOS, In Latin. Jesus
| NAZARENUS. REX IUDEORUMi I also
order that no person. Of whatever rank he
| may be. shall prevent the execution OF this
sentence In the full meaning OF the word,
under penalties imposed for high treason
This sentence have certified and subscribed.
| FOR THE TWELVE Tribes Of Israel:
Raban. Daniel segundus. Johannes. Ben
cias. Barbas. Isabu. Presidan.
FOR THE HIGH PRIEST:
/ Rauban. Judas. Bopcasalon.
| FOR THE PHARISEES:
Rollan. Simon. Daniel. Braban. Mordag,a,
FOR THE EMPIRE AND PRAISES OF
ROME:
Lucius sestilius and Amostrus silius.
| FOR THE HEATHEN:
Nostsn and Reotenan.
Should q document OF this Kind be con.
demned as fraud simply because In our
present Pre- cslcsi , lions we DO not agree with
on which sentence could possibly have been
passed. as the learned commentator In his
article. signed w. II. B. In your issue
| OF last Saturday. remarked?
This celebrated act as given here now An
| full. Will contain some more material for
the critics to base their Deductions Of Juss
| what OF II may be truth or fiction
In What Year Was Itf
A letter from Mr.. J. A Graves goes into
the matter OF the actual date on which the
erucihxion occurred In his communication
he says that the only early historians who
| give the year are Eusebius and Lactantius
The hrst gives 30 and the other %. II oc-
CURED 10 me that this question might be
based upon astronomical data BY such q
\ calculation 1 found. several years ago that
In the year 70 the Preparation on which
Jesus was crucified. was Friday, April
IL, and that the same day. In 81. fen on
1 Wednesday. April I. OF course Iactantius
was correct. for he agreed with the common
IDEA that Jesus was crucified On Friday
But then an old tradition came to nv
! mind that Aprfl-foolirg came from Jesus
being led in the morning OF that day first
to Pontius Pilot, then to the high priest
tben back TO Pilot then TO Herod, ana
hr.ally back again to Pilot. This tradition
/ agrees with Eusebius. How ala the trads-
ton come about,
In looking over the Gospels I found thar
the only one that gives an account OF the
resurrection is ST. Matthew. and that the
account there is that He rose in the end
Of the Sabbath. Now. the sabbath ended
at shutdown on Saturday. Jesus was ac-
ccrding TO Matthew x.ll-40. TO be three
/ days and three nights In the heart OF the
earth" II He was buried on Wednesday
| Just before shutdown Eusebius would be
4 right again. The three days are accounted
| for by patchwork from Friday at suncovn
10 Sunday at sunrise: but how about the
three nights7 Jesus is explicit In this pro-
| phecy.
Perhaps some one will say that ST. Mat
| thew adds 'as IL began to dawn toward the
| nrst day OF the week" Dawn. though
| generally applied to the beginning Of light,
is not necessarily SO applied. II means the
| beginning Of any time. the dawn Of the
| nineteenth century. Sunday was a Roman
holiday long before the Christian era. and
/
| ing TO Lactantius. would be Sunday. was
| the Talmudic Sabbath. which no Jew
! would visit the tomb.
| At the time OF this calculation I knew
rothing about De Morgan's Almanacs,
| which are calculated aback 70 each year
| for several hundred years B. c.
Mr.. Thomas LAWN OF oxford. England
| says that they cannot be disputed. nor Can
| Euseb.us be disputed q historian: and
| that De Morgan gives the fun moon IN -
| on Thursday, April 2 which brings the
| preparation. as I had made t. on wednes-
| day. April l. but. says Mr.. LAWN. 10 was the
preparation for the weekly Sabbath. and
| not the preparation for the Passover. on
| which He was cruci1ed. This astonished
| me. as / had never heard the day before
| the weekly Sabbath called the preparation.
| The Passover Also lasts a. week. and no
| execution could take place during that
| week. However. I examined the New Tes-
| lament and found that ST. John says txfx.
/ Ia: 1T was the preparation for the Pass
over" Besides this. the Paschal lamb was
| to be slain on the preparation for the Pass
| over, and IL was fitting that the antitype
| should suffer the same day. Another
| Circumstance occurred TO me. Jesus rested
| In the grave during three Sabbath days:
Thursday was the Passover Sabbath. COM
| manded in Mum. xxyiIi. Is: Friday was the
| Talr,udic Sabbath. commanded In the Tai
| mud and Saturday was the weekly Sab
| hath He thus typitied the Trinity. and
| enforced His teaching In Matt xxiii.2 and =.
That spurfou. Inscription.