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visage,' and that such Medals did exist, though both Celsus and Origen might be ignorant of them. In these remote periods, even in the paintings and sculptures of Thebes, much more in those of Greece and Rome, their statues and pictures were correct likenesses, and were multiplied without reserve. Besides, there was another source which might supply such a Medal, altogether irrespective of the early Christians. Scarcely an event occurred, of great moment, that was not commemorated on a coin or medal. So remarkable a history of events as those which occurred in Judea would not pass by, we may be perfectly sure, without some commemoration. It is highly probable," he proceeds, "that the governor of Judea would send Tiberius and the Roman Senate a representation of the illustrious individual who was the author of that new religion' which, according to their own account, had turned the world upside down.'"

These appear to me to be strong reasons for settling the fact of the genuineness of

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