The San Francisco call., 1895-10-13

Laur, Fausto, Georg Cassie, and some
other less known historians"
In his last letter to the Vatican, March
25, 1895, Mr.. Sutro explains the matter
fully He quotes from the Nurtum writ
ing as follows:
''In the year 3724 the Christ was taken
prisoner. and in the year 1892 he was cruci-
fed" He points out that 1924 and 1882
are the same year, and adds that this is
explained by the course of the moon
through the plane of the ecliptic. In
nearly nineteen wears the moon passes
through the whole circumference of the
heavens, and what he terms great course
is % times 10, which gives $50, and accord
ing to this calculation Christ's birth was
fifty-three years before 3671, which is 361S,
the difference between the first date (3761),
the accepted date, and the last (3618)
would be 143 years.
The letter continues: "It would be OF
the highest importance if this work of
Abraham Nurtum could be found in the
Vatican library or in any other, and fur
ther light might be thrown on the events
of the period Of Christ's BIRTH And this
passage further states: ''What formerly
they said in treatise Sanhed rim" etc. In
regard to the Apostle st. Peter the book
says that he was the apostle OF Christ and
the first Pope, and suffered martyrdom at
Rome, and this is an additional evidence
for the position of the Roman Catholic
church concerning the presence of ST.
Peter at Rome. This book contains mat
ters in regard to the early history OF Chris
tianity, the persecution and executions OF
Christians, and other things concerning
the church up to the year A. D. 1892.
The complete translation relating to the
birth of Christ is as follows:
3761 q A. D. Jesus Christ was born at Beth
lem Jehuda, one and a half stade distant from
Jerusalem, in the year 1851 of the creation, in
n NJ
peror Augustus, and according to the date was
his birth contemporaneous with the time IN
which lived Rabbi Simeon, the son OF Rabbi
K1llel, and Rabbi Jochanan, the son OF Rabbi
Saccal, and from this date begins the Christian
chronology, and in the Book of Genealogy page
II, 1t is written that he was born in the year
3611. And further is it stated in a book called
SheVat-Jehuda, in regard to which discus
sion took place between his Holiness the Pope
and Don Vidal, as follows: Know thou, fur
! ther, that have found written in an old, very
! old writing, at the house of my brother-in-law,
Abraham Nurtum, OF blessed memory as fol
! lows:
In tho year 1924 the Christ was captured
and in the year 3532 he was crucifed, and 1t is
explained as follows: The year 1924 and the
! year 1892 are one and the same year, because
3032 is one OF the recurring periods; IN every
532 fall together q great and small course o.
the moon. Nineteen times twenty-eight give:
532, and the year 1924 is completed by these
| 532 years, and according to this calculation
was his birth ffty-three (53) years vet earlier
than the year 3671, as they formerly said II
Sanhedrln; but know also that In all th'
Christian writings, though there exists be
tween them quarrels and disputes and various
opinions, have they agreed to count the years
from the forty-second year OF the Empero
Augustus, and this is the year 1851, the frs
year of the Christian era.
The passages relating to the deaths o
the Apostles Paul, Peter and John are a:
follows:
1924 (64 A D.)-About the year "a A. D. tn
Emperor Nero ordained to destroy, kill and t
utterly annihilate all those who believed il
the religion of Christ, and to destroy then
through unusual deaths. Some were throw
before wild beasts, others clad in skins of ami
mails and dogs set on to tear them to piece
with their teeth. Petrus, the learned Chris
tian teacher and the first Pope, was ordaine
TO be crucifed. The head of Paulus was Gu
off. 1t was altogether a perdition and ba
decree, and the first one against the Christians
1856 (96 A. D.)-The Emperor Demetrius OF
dained that John, one of the Apostles OF tn
Christians, be thrown into seething oil, an
that all those who believed in the religion c
the Christians should be utterly killed, de