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"Echo2Drs" |
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30 Jan 2005 09:27:13 PM |
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Death Warrant of Jesus |
http://www.soulindia.com/Jesus/Last_Supper/last_supper.html
LETTER TO TIBERIAS
Few people are aware, that there is in existence today, in the Archives in
Rome, a description of Christ. It is contained in a report written nearly two
thousand years ago, by a Roman, Publius Lentulus, to his Emperor, Tiberias. It
reads:
"There has appeared in Palestine a man who is still living and whose power is
extraordinary. He has the title given him of Great Prophet, his disciples call
him 'Son of God'. He raises the dead and heals all sorts of diseases."He is a
tall, well proportioned man, and there is an air of severity in his countenance
which at once attracts the love and reverence of those who see him. His hair is
the colour of new wine from the roots to the ears, and thence to the shoulders
it is curled and falls down to the lowest part of them. Upon the forehead, it
parts in two after the manner of Nazarenes.
"His forehead is flat and fair, his face without blemish or defect, and adorned
with a graceful expression. His nose and mouth are very well proportioned, his
beard is thick and the colour of his hair. His eyes are grey and extremely
lively.
"In his reproofs, he is terrible, but in his exhortations and instructions,
amiable and courteous. There is something wonderfully charming in this face
with a mixture of gravity. He is never seen to laugh, but has been observed to
weep. He is very straight in stature, his hands large and spreading, his arms
are very beautiful. "He talks little, but with a great quality and is the
handsomest man in the world."
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| User: "John Ings" |
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| Title: Re: Death Warrant of Jesus |
30 Jan 2005 09:50:48 PM |
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On 31 Jan 2005 03:27:13 GMT, (Echo2Drs) wrote:
LETTER TO TIBERIAS
Few people are aware, that there is in existence today, in the Archives in
Rome, a description of Christ. It is contained in a report written nearly two
thousand years ago, by a Roman, Publius Lentulus, to his Emperor, Tiberias. It
reads:
Publius Lentulus is a fictitious person, said to have been Governor of
Judea before Pontius, and to have written that letter to the Roman
Senate, not the Emperor.
Different manuscripts vary from the foregoing text in several details:
Dobschutz ("Christusbilder", Leipzig, 1899) enumerates the manuscripts
and gives an "apparatus criticus" . The letter was first printed in
the "Life of Christ" by Ludolph the Carthusian (Cologne, 1474), and in
the "Introduction to the works of St. Anselm" (Nuremberg, 1491). But
it is neither the work of St. Anselm nor of Ludolph. According to the
manuscript of Jena, a certain Giacomo Colonna found the letter in 1421
in an ancient Roman document sent to Rome from Constantinople. It must
be of Greek origin, and translated into Latin during the thirteenth or
fourteenth century, though it received its present form at the hands
of humanist of the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The description
agrees with the so-called Abgar picture of our Lord; it also agrees
with the portrait of Jesus Christ drawn by Nicephorus, St. John
Damascene, and the Book of Painters (of Mt. Athos). Munter ("Die
Sinnbilder und Kunstvorstellungen der alten Christen", Altona 1825, p.
9) believes he can trace the letter down to the time of Diocletian;
but this is not generally admitted. The letter of Lentulus is
certainly apocryphal: there never was a Governor of Jerusalem; no
Procurator of Judea is known to have been called Lentulus, a Roman
governor would not have addressed the Senate, but the emperor, a Roman
writer would not have employed the expressions, "prophet of truth",
"sons of men", "Jesus Christ". The former two are Hebrew idioms, the
third is taken from the New Testament. The letter, therefore, shows us
a description of our Lord such as Christian piety conceived him.
http://answers.org/bible/description.html
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