Christum. Non ita est. Neque enim sequitur ut si evangelium accipio,
idcirco et natum accipiam Christum. Ergo non putas cum ex Maria Virgine
esse? Manes dixit, Absit ut Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum per naturalia
pudenda mulieris de scendisse confitear." (Lardner's Works, vol. iv. p.
20.)

[512:2] "I maintain," says he, "that the Son of God was _born_: why am I
not ashamed of maintaining such a thing? Why! because it is itself a
shameful thing--I maintain that the Son of God _died_: well, _that_ is
wholly credible because it is monstrously absurd. I maintain that after
having been buried, _he rose again_: and _that_ I take to be absolutely
true, _because it was manifestly impossible_."

[512:3] King's Gnostics, p. 1.

[512:4] I. John, iv. 2, 3.

[512:5] II. John, 7.

[512:6] 1st Book Hermas: Apoc., ch. iii.

[512:7] Chapter II.

[513:1] Chapter II.

[513:2] Chapter III.

[513:3] Chapter III.

[513:4] I. Timothy, iii. 16.

[513:5] Irenaeus, speaking of them, says: "They hold that men ought not
to confess him who _was crucified_, but him who came in the form of man,
_and was supposed to be crucified_, and was called Jesus." (See Lardner:
vol. viii. p. 353.) They could not conceive of "the first-begotten Son
of God" being put to death on a cross, and suffering like an ordinary
being, so they thought Simon of Cyrene must have been substituted for
him, as the ram was substituted in the place of Isaac. (See Ibid. p.
857.)

[513:6] Apol. 1, ch. xxi.

[514:1] Koran, ch. iv.

[514:2] Chapter XX.

[514:3] Chapter II.

[514:4] Col. i. 23.

[514:5] I. Timothy, iii. 16.

[514:6] The authenticity of these Epistles has been freely questioned,
even by the most conservative critics.

[515:1] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, and Chapter XXXVII., this work.

[515:2] Quoted by Max Mueller: The Science of Relig., p. 228.

[515:3] Ch. cxvii.

[515:4] Ch. xxii.

[516:1] Ch. iv. 5.

[516:2] Josephus: Antiq., b. xx. ch. v. 2.

[516:3] It is true there was another Annas high-priest at Jerusalem, but
this was when _Gratus_ was procurator of Judea, some twelve or fifteen
years before Pontius Pilate held the same office. (See Josephus: Antiq.,
book xviii. ch. ii. 3.)

[516:4] See Appendix D.

[516:5] See the Martyrdom of Jesus, p. 100.

[516:6] According to Dio Cassius, Plutarch, Strabo and others, there
existed, in the time of Herod, among the Roman Syrian heathens, a
wide-spread and deep sympathy for a "_Cruci