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Jesus of Nazareth.
Sec u I a r Soc iet ies.
The four Gospels which
the
council < f Laodicea in 363 decided
by vote to he true and reliablec one
far fro m agreeing in their different
versions; the p rin tin g press was un-
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t h o e . a n d tie - o n ly
¿yay
New ton, Iowa,
M rs. E . B. Moffitt,
See
Riverside, Iowa, Daisy Fesler, “
C r e s e n t, O k la . B. C. B r e w s te r . “
Vancouver, W adi.,
f____ ______ M r ^ i ! J> t„ B u rro w s .
m ultiplying copies of the gospels
and epistles was hy the pen, and
th is principally hy monks.
Very
few of these copies were m ade from
the originals. They were sim ply
copies of c »pies and there arc now
in existence, no coj ieg m ade nearer
th e tim e of Jesus th an 500 years.
It is supposed th a t M athew 's
gospel was w ritten first and th at
Mark and Luke were copied more
or less from it. They se» in to have
been som ewhat uncertain as to
M athew’s credibility, for they om it
ted several of the most w onder
ful parts, and rejected m any of his
m ost astonishing miracles. An
able E nglish w riter, in referring
to the reliability of the gospel”, thus
expresses himself: “ The o rd in ary
notion, th a t the four gospels were
w ritten by the persons whose nam es
they hear, has no foundation in
tru th , an d has now been given up
l»y all C hristian w riters,” and here
t he adm ission of Bishop E austus is
conclusive and shows th a t the
C hristian world has been all along
kept in most strange and su p ersti
tious ignorance on this subject.
Upon the same subject, the Rev. E.
E vanson th u s de-cants:
‘•Although the gospels are to he
receive«! as the compositions «»f the
Jews, yet th eir com positions do
nevertheless betray so great a de
gree of ignorance of the G eography,
statistic-1, and circum stances
of
Judea at the time supposed, as to
put it beyond all question, that
the w riters were neither Jew s or
in h ab itan ts of Ju d ea .” Jacolliot,
th e e m in e n t nn<l le a rn e d
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the pens of Christian w riters.”
T h at we have none hy G r e e k o r R<>-
m an w riters is not, perhaps, to he
wondered at; hut it is singular that
neither Philo, Josephus nor G ustus
of L iberia, should have ever alluded
to Christ or to prim itive C h ristian
ity. Philo was Ixirn at A lexandria
about 20 years before C hrist and
traveled extensively in Palestine
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of t the *v
Essenes i lie saw
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there; hut he says not a word about
Jesus C hrist or his followers.
Samuel Ames.
Hicks
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