...chiefly addressed to an uncertain class. As stewards know not their employer, Josephus says Jesus was a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man. He was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He was...

...This looks so very like the fifth and sixth clauses of this testimony in Josephus, that Jesus tras a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, that it is highly probable Origen thereby alluded to them : and this is the more to be depended on,...

...mention which the Jewish historian makes of Jesus Christ, is in the following remarkable passage. " Now, there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man,...doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him, both many of the Jews and of the Gentiles. He...

...interpolations. To begin with Josephus. The passage containing his testimony to Christ, is as follows : — " Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man ; for he7 performed many wonderful works. Ho •was a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure....

...lawful to call him a man ; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him, both many of the Jews and of the Gentiles. He was the Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us,...

...tolerably close translation : — " At that time lived Jesus, a wise man, if, indeed, it is proper to call him a man ; for he was a doer of wonderful deeds, a teacher of men who receive with pleasure what is true. And he drew to him many Jews, and many...

...against Pontius Pilate, wtuch the latter had quelled, he says, — " Now there was about this time Jems a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man ; for he performed many wonderful works. He was the teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure....

...writing the history of what happened under Pilate, make* mention of our Saviour in these words : — Now there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it t^e lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as had a...

...give his testimony from his Antiquities of the Jews, composed about the year 90 : — "Now there rose about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful...of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He carried away with him many of the Jews and also many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. And after Pilate,...

...years Iater than Philo, when relating the history of Pontius Pilate's government of Judea, says, " Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be Itnrfitl to call him a man ; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive...