Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . f the Redeemer. According to thisbook, while the child Jesus was lying in his cradle hesaid to his mother, I, whom thou hast brought forth,am Jesus, the Son of God, the Logos, as the angel Ga-briel announced to thee; and I am sent by my Fatherfor the salvation of the world. At his birth his pa-rents are in a cave, amid the splendor of lights whichshine more brightly than the light of the sun. Thewoman called in by Joseph, as soon as she sa
Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . f the Redeemer. According to thisbook, while the child Jesus was lying in his cradle hesaid to his mother, I, whom thou hast brought forth,am Jesus, the Son of God, the Logos, as the angel Ga-briel announced to thee; and I am sent by my Fatherfor the salvation of the world. At his birth his pa-rents are in a cave, amid the splendor of lights whichshine more brightly than the light of the sun. Thewoman called in by Joseph, as soon as she saw thatMary was the mother, exclaimed, Thou art not likethe daughters of Eve; to which Mary replied: Asnone among the children is like my child, so his motherhas not her like among women. Mary allows thenurse to lay her hands on the child, and thus are theymade clean. The child is circumcised in the cave, andthe Hebrew woman preserves the foreskin in a vesselof spikenard, the same vessel from which afterwardsMary the sinner anointed the head and feet of theLord. To the Magi, who came in consequence of aprophesy of Zoroaster, Mary gave one of the swad-. APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS. 221 dling cloths in which the child had been wrapped, andthey received it as the choicest treasure. On theirreturn home, they held a festival, and, according totheir custom in religious worship, kindled a fire, andinto it they threw the bandage, which, however, re-mained unscorched, as if the fire had not touched kissed it, spread it over their heads and eyes,and said, This is an undoubted truth, verily it is agreat thing that the fire can not destroy it. And theytook the bandage, and with groat reverence preservedit in their treasury. Next comes the narrative of the journey into Egypt,and a loose, disconnected story of the strangest andmost trivial miracles. The holy family come to a citywhich is the abode of the most distinguished god inthe land; and the moment they take lodgings in apublic house, the
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