36. The passage concerning Jesus Christ which was inserted
into the text of Josephus between the time of Origen and
that of Eusebius, may furnish an example of no vulgar
forgery. The accomplishment of the prophecies, the virtues,
miracles, and resurrection of Jesus, are distinctly related.
Josephus acknowledges that he was the Messiah, and hesitates
whether he should call him a man. If any doubt can still
remain concerning this celebrated passage, the reader may
examine the pointed objections of Le Fevre (Havercamp.
Joseph. tom. ii. p. 267-273), the laboured answers of Daubuz
(p. 187-232), and the masterly reply (Bibliotheque Ancienne
et Moderne, tom. vii. p. 237-288) of an anonymous critic,
whom I believe to have been the learned Abbe de Longuerue.