The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

^raising from the dead' was a primal article in the
faith of the primitive Church, for which—as a fact,
not a possibility—all were ready to offer up their
lives. Nor should we forget that, in one of the
earliest apologies addressed to the Roman
Emperor, Quadratus appealed to the fact, that, of
those who had been healed or raised from the dead
by Christ, some were still alive, and all were well
known.* On the other hand, the only real ground
for rejecting this narrative is disbelief in the
Miraculous, uiit sod. including, of course,
rejection of the Christ as the Miracle of Miracles.
But is it not vicious reasoning in a circle, as well
as begging the question, to reject the Miraculous
because we discredit the Miraculous ? and does
not such rejection involve much more of the
incredible than faith itself?
And so, with all Christendom, we gladly take it, in
simplicity of faith, as a true record by true men—
all the more, that they who told it knew it to be so
incredible, as not only to provoke scom,^ but to
^AaUTftc expose them to the charge of cunningly