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Chapter VI.—Hears of
Christ.
Not to make a long story of it, whilst I was
tossed upon these billows of my thought, a certain report, which took
its rise in the regions of the East in the reign of Tiberius
Cæsar, gradually reached us; and gaining strength as it passed
through every place, like some good message sent from God, it was
filling the whole world, and suffered not the divine will to be
concealed in silence. For it was spread over all places,
announcing that there was a certain person in Judæa, who,
beginning in the springtime,535
| 535 V. R. in the time of
Tiberius Cæsar. | was preaching the
kingdom of God to the Jews, and saying that those should receive it who
should observe the ordinances of His commandments and His
doctrine. And that His speech might be believed to be worthy of
credit, and full of the Divinity, He was said to perform many mighty
works, and wonderful signs and prodigies by His mere word; so that, as
one having power from God, He made the deaf to hear, and the blind to
see, and the lame to stand erect, and expelled every infirmity and all
demons from men; yea, that He even raised dead persons who were brought
to Him; that He cured lepers also, looking at them from a distance; and
that there was absolutely nothing which seemed impossible to Him.
These and such like things were confirmed in process of time, not now
by frequent rumours, but by the plain statements of persons coming from
those quarters; and day by day the truth of the matter was further
disclosed.
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