The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . EVIDENCES—HISTORICAL. 107 the Father by the name of Jesus; while only fifty years laterTertullian states that in almost every city Christians formedthe majority. Heathen and Jewish writers, without speaking of the NewTestament, and without giving any evidence, there- Heathenfore, of its genuineness, confirm in a general way testimonies,the narratives of the life of our Lord and of his disciples, orincidentally illustrate them. Josephus in his Annals (A. ), Tacitus in his History (A. D. 100), Suetonius in hisBiograph
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . EVIDENCES—HISTORICAL. 107 the Father by the name of Jesus; while only fifty years laterTertullian states that in almost every city Christians formedthe majority. Heathen and Jewish writers, without speaking of the NewTestament, and without giving any evidence, there- Heathenfore, of its genuineness, confirm in a general way testimonies,the narratives of the life of our Lord and of his disciples, orincidentally illustrate them. Josephus in his Annals (A. ), Tacitus in his History (A. D. 100), Suetonius in hisBiographical Sketches (A. D. 117), Juvenal in his Satires (A. ), and Pliny in his Letters (A. D. 103), all confirm the his-torical statements of the sacred story. Indeed there is nctransaction of ancient history that can exhibit more than afraction of the evidence by which the narrative of the Gospelsis the passages quoted in Paley, P. i. ch. ii. 170. The following are the principal ecclesiastical Ecclesiastiwriters who prove at once the genuineness and
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