Lectures On the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century Delivered
Lectures On the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century Delivered
Albert Barnes
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(d) In considering the question whether these causes alone would explain the facts of the propagation of Christianity, let it now be supposed that the system was false; that it was based on imposture and delu sion ; that Jesus never existed, or that he was an en thusiast, or that he was an impostor, or that his apos- nihil erit. Auditor. Feci, mehevcule, et quidem saepius : sed nes- cio quo modo, dum lego, assentior ; cum posui librum, et mecum ipse de immortalite animorum coepi cogitare, assen...tio omnis ilia elabitur. Tusc. Quaest. , lib. I. , c. Ii. G 146 LECTURES ON THE ties contrived the system with an intention to impose on the world ; that no miracles were wrought ; that Christ was not raised from the dead; that all this oc curred in the most intellectual age of past time, when the light of philosophy had just culminated in Greece and in Rome, and before the long night settled down on Europe in the Dark Ages ; when of all ages it would have been most easy to detect an imposture and the problem then would be, how could such a religion, un der such apostles, and in such an age, accomplish these things ?
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