y, on account of
the Popes, in their efforts to revive learning, giving money rewards and
indulgences to those who should procure MS. copies of any of the ancient
Greek or Roman authors. Manuscripts turned up as if by magic, in every
direction; from libraries of monasteries, obscure as well as famous; the
most out-of-the-way places,--the bottom of exhausted wells, besmeared by
snails, as the History of Velleius Paterculus, or from garrets, where
they had been contending with cobwebs and dust, as the poems of
Catullus.

[567:1] A portion of the passage--that relating to the manner in which
the Christians were put to death--is found in the _Historia Sacra_ of
Sulpicius Severus, a Christian Father, who died A. D. 420; but it is
evident that this writer did not take it from the _Annals_. On the
contrary, the passage was taken--as Mr. Ross shows--from the _Historia
Sacra_, and bears traces of having been so appropriated. (See Tacitus &
Bracciolini, the Annals forged in the XVth century, by J. W. Ross.)

[567:2] "_Christ_ is a name having no spiritual signification, _and
importing nothing more than an ordinary surname_." (Dr. Giles: Hebrew
and Christian Records, vol. ii. p. 64.)

"The name of _Jesus_ and _Christ_ was both known and honored among the
ancients." (Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 1, ch. iv.)

"The name _Jesus_ is of Hebrew origin, and signifies _Deliverer_, and
_Savior_. It is the same as that translated in the Old Testament
_Joshua_. The word _Christ_, of Greek origin, is properly _not a name_
but _a title_, signifying _The Anointed_. The whole name is therefore,
_Jesus the Anointed_ or _Jesus the Messiah_." (Abbott and Conant; Dic.
of Relig. Knowledge, art. "_Jesus Christ_.")

In the oldest Gospel extant, that attributed to Matthew, we read that
Jesus said unto his disciples, "Whom say ye that I am?" whereupon Simon
Peter answers and says: "Thou art THE CHRIST, the Son of the living God.
. . . Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he
was Jesus THE Christ." (Matt. xvi. 15-20.)

This clearly shows that "_the Christ_" was simply a _title_ applied to
the man Jesus, therefore, if a _title_, it cannot be a _name_. All
passages in the New Testament which speak of _Christ_ as a _name_,
betray their modern date.

[567:3] "This name (Christian) occurs but three times in the New
Testament, and is never used by Christians of themselves, only as spoken
by or coming from those without the Church