UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19146, 14 April 1924, Page 10

UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT.

WELLINGTON BOXING TEAM. (Per United Dress Association.) WELLINGTON, April 12. Tbe following comprise the Wellington boxing team for the University tournament : Heavy-weight, A. I). M’Rae. Middle-weight, E. C. Miller. Welter-weight, V. F. Coningham. Light-weight. N. J. Lewis. Feather-weight, C. E. Ball. Bantam-weight, 1. W. Wilby. EARLY CHRISTIANITY. TO THE EDITOR. Sia, —In his iaet letter on this subject Professor Dickie says, “1 ara no more concerned to impugn than I am to defend the authenticity of Josephus’s reference to our Lord,” but ho lias impugned it as much as poseible. Will he kindly explain the silence of Jewish and Christian writers of the second, third, and fourth centuries iu regal'd to" the alleged spurious passage? Surely the learned disbelievers of those centuries would instantly have pounced ripen the forgery and exposed it. and Christian writers would have frankly acknowledged the fnr- e-v • hot el'erred for’ery ban been allowed to pass unchallenged almost down to uu u.iv.s ,-*ll- .u.iiii-i L-.urri, wno pioie.-s (/-, t-n -iv fo r-iueli better than the learned of ancient times vrbat is genuine and what is spar-oi-s ui ancient documents. Winston, the learned translator of Josephus, evidently believed that the passage referring to Jesus Christ. was genuine, tor be did not insert a footnote endorsing the opinion of such men -as Dr Dickie and Ur Bardenhewer, and he certainly would have done so had be thought there was ground for that opinion. Indeed. Whisfon, in footnotes to the “Life of Josephus,” endorses Ur Hudson's opinion that Joseplrje was in his youthful days a follower of John tho Baptist in some things, and “imbibed fi .ch notions from John as afterwards prepared him to have a favourable opinion of Jesus Christ himself.” I will do Josephus the honour of believing that the paer-ago is authentic. If he did not write it he certainly ought to have written it, for the facts l.e had before him overwhelmingly warranted the conclusion that Jesus was tho true Messiah.— I am, etc., April 13. Scuutatob.