Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ecce Homo! Or a Critical Enquiry Into the History of Jesus Christ: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels
It is by mysteries the mind is prepared to respect religion and its teachers. We are therefore warrant ed to suspect, that an obscurity was designedly given to these writings. In matters of religion it is prudent never to Speak very distinctly. Truths, simple and easily understood, do not strike the human imagination in so lively a manner, as ambiguous oracles and impe netrable mysteries. Desus Christ, although come our purpose to enlighten the world, was to be a stumblmg block to most people. The small number of the elect.
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