![]() ![]() ![]() They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law. Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That sect had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications. We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. “If we could believe that he really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor. ![]()
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