Treatise on the physical cause of the death of Christ and its relation to the principles and practice of Christianity / by William Stroud.

Date:
1871
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    / CHAPTER III. REJECTIOK OF ERRONEOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST. n By a certain class of German theologians who arrogate to themselves the title of Rationalists, the reality of Christ's death on the cross has been questioned, or denied. In the course of this treatise the fact will be incidentally established by new and conclusive evidence, but for the present will be sim- ply assumed on the testimony of Scripture, the state- ments of which concerning this point are so numerous and positive that, could they be disproved, its claims not merely to inspiration, but even to ordinary credi- bihty would be destroyed, and any further inquiry on the subject would be irrational. The fact being therefore assumed, its explanation will now be at- tempted, and in order to exclude mere conjecture and aim at demonstration, the common rules respect- ing the assignment of causes will be strictly observed; namely, those causes only will be deemed admissible which actually preceded the effect, were adequate to its production, and perfectly accord with all the cir- cumstances of the case, and the cause in which these conditions are found most completely to concur will be regarded as the true one. By a majority of those whose knowledge of the subject is chiefly derived from D