Cox.

[562:1] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 59.

[562:2] Ibid.

[562:3] Ibid. p. 181.

[562:4] Book iv. ch. i. in Anac., vol. i. p. 137.

[562:5] P. 6.

[562:6] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 33.

[562:7] Aryan Mytho., vol. ii. p. 33.

[562:8] Williams' Hinduism, p. 88.

[563:1] Mueller's Chips, vol. ii. p. 260.

APPENDIX D.

We maintain that not so much as one single passage purporting to be
written, _as history_, within the first hundred years of the Christian
era, can be produced to show the existence _at_ or before that time of
such a person as Jesus of Nazareth, called the Christ, or of such a set
of men as could be accounted his disciples or followers. Those who would
be likely to refer to Jesus or his disciples, but who have not done so,
wrote about:

A. D. 40 Philo.[564:1]
40 Josephus.
79 C. Plinius Second, the Elder.[564:2] }
69 L. Ann. Seneca. } Philosophers.
79 Diogenes Laertius. }
79 Pausanias. } Geographers.
79 Pompon Mela. }
79 Q. Curtius Ruf. }
79 Luc. Flor. }
110 Cornel Tacitus. } Historians.
123 Appianus. }
140 Justinus. }
141 AElianus. }

Out of this number it has been claimed that one (Josephus) spoke of
Jesus, and another (Tacitus) of the Christians. Of the former it is
almost needless to speak, as that has been given up by Christian divines
many years ago. However, for the sake of those who still cling to it we
shall state the following:

Dr. Lardner, who wrote about A. D. 1760, says:

1. It was never quoted by any of our Christian ancestors
before _Eusebius_.

2. Josephus has nowhere else mentioned the name or word
_Christ_, in any of his works, except the testimony above
mentioned,[564:3] and the passage concerning James, the Lord's
brother.[564:4]

3. It interrupts the narrative.

4. The language is quite Christian.

5. It is _not_ quoted by Chrysostom,[564:5] though he often
refers to Josephus, and could not have omitted quoting it, had
it been _then_, in the text.

6. It is _not_ quoted by Photius, though he has three articles
concerning Josephus.

7. Under the article _Justus of Tiberius_, this author
(Photius) expressly states that this historian (Josephus),
being a Jew, _has not tak