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25: O thou handmaid of God! It is recorded in eastern … 55 |
O thou handmaid of God! It is recorded in eastern
histories that Socrates journeyed to Palestine and Syria and
there, from men learned in the things of God, acquired
certain spiritual truths; that when he returned to Greece, he
promulgated two beliefs: one, the unity of God, and the
other, the immortality of the soul after its separation from
the body; that these concepts, so foreign to their thought,
raised a great commotion among the Greeks, until in the
end they gave him poison and killed him.
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The above, however, cannot be found in the Jewish
histories; there are many facts which are not included in
Jewish history. Not all the events of the life of Christ are set
forth in the history of Josephus, a Jew, although it was he
who wrote the history of the times of Christ. One may not,
therefore, refuse to believe in events of Christ’s day on the
grounds that they are not to be found in the history of
Josephus.
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