This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... miracle of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which we have been studying in our first two lectures, is clear of all the objections we have now been citing. The age of Augustus and Tiberius, in which the advent of Jesus Christ took place, was the most enlightened of antiquity. It was the age in which, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... miracle of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which we have been studying in our first two lectures, is clear of all the objections we have now been citing. The age of Augustus and Tiberius, in which the advent of Jesus Christ took place, was the most enlightened of antiquity. It was the age in which, under the attacks of philosophy, the ancient pagan superstitions crumbled to dust.1 It was the age in which Lucretius was writing his completely rationalistic poem on Nature, and identified its laws, as men are doing now, with the divine nature. The Epicuraeans attempted to account for matter by atoms and the forces inherent in them, as do our modern materialists; and the Stoics, who affirmed that they found in their own moral goodness power sufficient to fulfil the law of duty in their own strength, without help from God, were not very different from our liberal Christians. 1 Mythology is only treated in the manner of Ovid in the Metamorphoses, by one who has ceased to believe in it. One feels strongly enough that Virgil has no longer any belief in that Olympian world in which the faith of the Homeric age moves so naively. As for And it was in such an age that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was preached, and believed in the whole world! What! it was at the time when all the ancient superstitions were falling to pieces under the blows of the battering-rams of emancipated Eeason, that we are to believe that that which of all others was the most repugnant to the way of thinking of the men of that age, lifted up its hand and conquered the world!1 What we have been now saying of the resurrection applies equally to the innumerable miracles attributed in the New Testament to our Lord Himself and to His apostles. That age is not the dimly-lighted...
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