FOOTNOTES:

[564:1] The Rev. Dr. Giles says: "Great is our disappointment at finding
nothing in the works of Philo about the Christians, their doctrines, or
their sacred books. About the _books_ indeed we need not expect any
notice of these works, but about the Christians and their doctrines his
silence is more remarkable, seeing that he was about sixty years old at
the time of the crucifixion, and living mostly in Alexandria, so closely
connected with Judea, and the Jews, could hardly have failed to know
something of the _wonderful events_ that had taken place in the city of
Jerusalem." (Hebrew and Christian Records, vol. ii. p. 61.)

The Rev. Dr. assumes that these "wonderful events" really took place,
but, if they did not take place, of course Philo's silence on the
subject is accounted for.

[564:2] Both these philosophers were living, and must have experienced
the immediate effects, or received the earliest information of the
existence of Christ Jesus, had such a person as the Gospels make him out
to be ever existed. Their ignorance or their willful silence on the the
subject, is not less than _improbable_.

[564:3] Antiquities, bk. xviii. ch. iii. 3.

[564:4] Ibid. bk. xx. ch. ix. 1.

[564:5] John, Bishop of Constantinople, who died....

[565:1] Lardner: vol. vi. ch. iii.

[565:2] Bible for Learners, vol. iii. p. 27.

[565:3] Life of Christ, vol. I. p. 63.

[565:4] Hebrew and Christ. Rec. vol. ii. p. 62.

[565:5] In his Eccl. Hist. lib. 2. ch. xii.

[565:6] Ch. 31, bk. xii. of Eusebius _Prae paratio Evangelica_ is
entitled: "How far it may be proper to use falsehood as a medium for the
benefit of those who require to be deceived;" and he closes his work
with these words: "I have repeated whatever may rebound to the glory,
and suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace of our religion."

[566:1] The original MSS. containing the "Annals of Tacitus" were
"discovered" in the fifteenth century. Their existence cannot be traced
back further than that time. And as it was an age of imposture, some
persons are disposed to believe that not only portions of the _Annals_,
but the whole work, was forged at that time. Mr. J. W. Ross, in an
elaborate work published in London some years ago, contended that the
_Annals_ were forged by Poggio Bracciolini, their professed discoverer.
At the time of Bracciolini the temptation was great to palm off literary
forgeries, especially of the chief writers of antiquit