The Churches and Modern Thought / An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour

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Gorham for permitting me to make a fr

ll parts of the globe (as I was informed by the librarian when I inquired for the book in a Cathedral library), let me c

y, D.D., Professor of Hebrew an

ecturer in Hebrew, and Fellow

ter Johns, M.A., Hon. Sec.

L.D., Professor of Hebrew and Old Testame

. Robinson, D.D.,

nd Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Theology in t

D.D., Professor of Biblical

.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew,

Professor of the Interpretation of Holy

d Testament Literature, North Wales Baptist College, Ba

Lecturer in Old Testament Criti

Biblical Languages and Literature, Hackney College, London,

., Lady Margaret Professor of Divin

of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, U

y, M.A., Professor of Hebrew

yclop?dia Biblica (1899 to 1903). Even the comparatively conservative Hastings's Dictionary (1898–1902, with extra volume 1904) contains articles which would have been condemned as heretical half a century ago. Speaking of

note got the stone and

he site of Susa, the ancient city of the Persian kings, in

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subject-matter perhaps less characteristic, while the MS. evidence is in favour of the passage being genuine. Taking it to be so, what, after all, does it amount to? Merely this. Christ was put to death by Pontius Pilate, and a very large number of Christians were put to death in a horrible manner by Nero. The passage occurs in Tacitus, Annals, XV., 44, and runs as follows: "Consequently, to get rid of the accusation, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called by the populace 'Christians.' Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate, and a most

e likeness of our Lord had b

of the Likeness of Christ (translated by E. A. Wallis Budge) closes with these words: "And the angel