Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

240 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMpaired in senses, in mind only matured and enriched,approaches a hundred years, the utmost bound ofhuman existence. Sixthly, and lastly, this long lifeis crowned with a death-if so it can be calledin keeping with it, for his tomb can nowhere be foundthough Philostratus searches for it. Rat r as swanshymned his entrance into life on the flowery meadso the temple's gates op fore him and close bhind him. and he is seen no w t voice og s is heard welcoming 3 the ascent eaven othe man who is the representat f Greek wisdomd in fact bee? a d m be« h infoldth e deity with h t tab m. - f d. thhighest concept f the heathen mindNow through the whole of this biography, whiclmakes in the original a volume of 343 pages, rathelarger than the ur Gospel th is t a gemention of the Christian religion, or that t hadb y such p as Christ, or any people calledfter II N ?rtheless. as to the time at whichApd to have lived, and the places in whichhis tivity was hiefly exercised th are somcurious point t ted which m t indiata hidd to all ese. First as tmPh t mak im d ry greft th accession and bef th death thEmperor Nerva. If he be given, as some accountsaccording to Philostratus gave him, full a hundredyears, this would bring his birth exactly to the date ofthe birth of our Lord. But at any rate his exit fromthe earthly scene coincides exactly in time with thedeath of the Evangelist St. John. Thus his life comprehendsthe whole period of our Lord and HisApostles. Moreover, he is described to be traversing