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    followers , but their writings , like those of the early Jews , wbuld have abounded with complaints , insinuations and reproaches . But

    nothing of the kind occurs in any part of their voluminous productions . So far from reflecting on the gospel and its votaries , they act the part of advocates and friends . Ananias , the high-priest ,

    accused and condemned James and some of his brethren for transgressing the Mosaic law . This was the charge brought against

    those who supported , the claims of Jesus from the writings of Moses find the prophets . For this Joseph us holds forth Ananias , on one hand , as fierce in his temper , and one of those men who were cruel

    m their judicial sentences : on $ he other hand , hp represents the apostle and his fellow-sufferers as pot guilty of the charge brought against them , alleging that the most equitable men of the city , and those who had the most

    competent knowledge of the law , thought them innocent , and were grievously offended at such proceedings . AiHiq . Col . 20 , c- 9 » 1 » JKccles . Res * p * 521 . The men ^ vho gav e this verd i ct were themselves believers in Christ ; and

    Joseph us , q . s he entertained the * ame opinion respecting the apostle , was in the number of those who approved his principles . h 3 . In chapter viii , Mr * J . endeavours to sbew that Philo is in

    the strictest sense a Chistian wnter , haying pften mentioned our Lord under those hig , h titles which designate him as the most eminent servant of God in the New

    Testa-Among the numbei are the two following passages : < c Jt believes kirn who b devoted to the Father

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    of the world , to employ as his intercessor his own Son , who i * most perfect in virtue , in order that he might obtain the forgive , ness of his sins , and a supply of the most abundant blessings /*

    Elsewhere Philo has thus written . , 4 C God , the author of divine virtue , was willing to send his image from heaven to the earth , that he might wash away the impurities which fill this life , and that he might thus secure to us a better

    inheritance . " Eccles . Res * p . 125 , 138 , 152 . / In these two places , the Son of God is expressly mentioned—is set forth as the most per . feet in virtue , or without sin—as

    the intercessor by whom is ofi * tairied the pardon of our sins—as the image ofGod sent from heaven" for the purpose of reforming mankind , and thus qualif y ing them for a divine inheritance *

    These are the g lorious au < l peculiar doctrines of the gospel ; and Piiilo expresses the same ideas , nearly in the same words with the apostles of ChrisU See particul a rly 1 John ii . Heb . i . 1 , 2 , 3 .

    T ¦ f 4 . Our Lord predicted the fall of Jerusalem , and Joseph us , it is well known , is the great historian who has recorded the event wtucfi

    fulfilled that prediction . Thia fulfilment was the last great miracle with which the hand of God sealed the truth of the gospel ; an 4 Joseph us knew that in relating it

    he was transmitting to posterity a narrative ^ y hich , when compared with the evangelical records , proves their truth , to live end of titae ; Would an unbeliever in

    the gospel thus voluntarily empjoj himself in raising the most glorious and lasting monument to its truth ? Tacitus , Dion Cassius , and Joaepjiua hmv give » , very diffejrejtf

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/47/