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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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not . be found . It is said to be a volume in Svo . I shall soon visit him again , and he has directed one of his servants to take care that the book may be ready for me . 1 will then give you the name of the author , and if you have not seen that book , the worthy Archbishop will readily send it . Make my remembrances to Graeviiis , Guenelon , and all . the Veens , To our Le Clerc , whom 1 respectfully
remetpber * * I wrote several Weeks , <> r rathe ^ l I may say months , since . I am ignorant whether he received my letters ; for since that time 1 have heard . nothing from him * Pray request him to inform me immediately , if my letter has not reached him . With my kindest regards to your dear wife and your children , I remain , most worthy friend , Yours , most respectfully , J . LOCKE .
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The Testimony which Josephus bears to Jesus Christ , Sir , Mat / 6 , 1818 . "IH ^ TO portion of ancient records , Jl . ^ 1 since the revival of learning , has s # much engaged the attention , or for
a time so widely divided the opinion oflearned men , as the celebrated passage , found in the Jewish Antiquities * concerning Jesus Christ . During a whole century it has been the subject of much dispute among the critics , Catholic and Protestant , in everv
country throughout Christendom ; till at length those who agreed in nothing else , came to agree in this , that the passage is the forgery of some Christian of the third century ; nor ,
perhaps , does there exist a learned man of any estimation in Europe , who thinks it the production of the great Josephus . The passage is to this effect : " And about this time existed
Jesus , a wiseman , if , indeed he might be calied a man ; for he was the author of wonderful works , and the teacher of such men as embrace the truth with delight . He united to himself many Jews , and many among the Gentiles . This was the Christ : and
those who from the first had been attached to him , continued their attachment , though he was condemned by our great men , and crucified by Pilate . For he appeared to them alive
again the third day : and these , -with innumerable other marvellous things concerning him , beiug foretold by the divine prophets . And the race , who from him still call themselves
Christians have not falle n away . ' * * * I : shall here quote a few instances , to shew in what manner the learned have
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In opposition to the general opinion , I maintain that this important para * graph is the genuine production of the Jewish historian ; and I shall here briefly state the several arguments which , when fully attended to and enforced , must triumphantly restore its lost credit , and raise it above the suspicion of forgery to the end of time .
1 . For nearly fifteen hundred years it existed in the Jewish Antiquities , apparently without any suspicion of forgery : nor have those critics , who , after the revival of Teaming , brought it into disrepute , been able to produce any testimony against its genuineness * The same historical evidence
authenspoken of this passage . ' * We conclude , " says Warburton , Div , Leg . I . 295 , " that the passage where Josephus , who was as much a Jew as the religion of Moses could make him , is made to acknowledge that Jesus is the Christ , is a rank forgery , and a very stupid one too . " Dr . Priestley
says , Early Opinions , I . 100 , u The famous passage in Joseph ( is concerning " Christ , is not a more evident interpolation * than many in these epistles of Ignatius . " The judgment « # f Mr , Gibbon is particularly worthy of notice : u The passage concerning- Jesus Christ , " writes he , Vol . II . ch . I 6
" which was inserted in the text of Josephus , between the time of Origen and that of Cusebius , may furnish an example of no vulg * ar forgery . The accomplishment of the prophecies , the virtues , the miracles of Jesus are distinctly related . Josephus acknowledges that he was the Messiah , and hesitates whether he should call him a man .
If any doubt can still remain concerning this celebrated passage , the reader may examine the pointed objections of Le Febre , and the masterly reply of an anonymous critic , whom I believe to have been tlhe learned A bbe" de Lariguerae , ** '
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The Testimony which Josephus bears to Jesus Christ . 357
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/13/
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