over this difficulty, say
that, "it _may_ come from the look or form of the spot itself, bald,
round, and skull-like, and therefore a mound or hillock," but, if it
means "_the place of bare skulls_," no such construction as the above
can be put to the word.

[526:1] The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth, pp. 109-111.

[527:1] O. B. Frothingham: The Cradle of the Christ, p. 11.

The reader is referred to "Judaism: Its Doctrines and Precepts," by Dr.
Isaac M. Wise. Printed at the office of the "American Israelite,"
Cincinnati, Ohio.

[527:2] If Jesus, instead of giving himself up quietly, had _resisted_
against being arrested, there certainly would have been bloodshed, as
there was on many other similar occasions.

[528:1] If what is recorded In the Gospels on the subject was true, no
historian of that day could fail to have noticed it, but instead of this
there is _nothing_.

[528:2] See Matthew, xxvii. 51-53.

[529:1] See Matt. xiv. 15-22: Mark, iv. 1-3, and xi. 14; and Luke, vii.
26-37.

[529:2] See Mark, xvi. 16.

[529:3] This fact has at last been admitted by the most orthodox among
the Christians. The Rev. George Matheson, D. D., Minister of the Parish
of Innellan, and a member of the Scotch Kirk, speaking of the precept
uttered by Confucius, five hundred years before the time assigned for
the birth of Jesus of Nazareth ("Whatsoever ye would not that others
should do unto you, do not ye unto them"), says: "That Confucius is the
_author_ of this precept is undisputed, _and therefore it is
indisputable that Christianity has incorporated an article of Chinese
morality_. It has appeared to some as if this were to the disparagement
of Christianity--as if the originality of its Divine Founder were
impaired by consenting to borrow a precept from a heathen source. _But
in what sense does Christianity set up the claim of moral originality?_
When we speak of the religion of Christ as having introduced into the
world a purer life and a surer guide to conduct, what do we mean? Do we
mean to suggest that Christianity has, _for the first time_, revealed to
the world the existence of a set of self-sacrificing precepts--that
here, _for the first time_, man has learned that he ought to be meek,
merciful, humble, forgiving, sorrowful for sin, peaceable, and pure in
heart? The proof of such a statement would destroy Christianity itself,
for an _absolute original code of precepts_ would be equivalent to a
foreign language. _Th