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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 33, 13 December 1873, Page 13

(1.) We have scrupulously noted down, on four colu Tins, under the title of the four ETdugelisU, tha number of all the vtsrsea cited m the notes of the " Vu. iU jetiu. ' i'his hits fumishad ua with s _>me atartliug revelations. *or example, the author iuforms us that the first Chapter of St. Matthew is an apocryphal legend, without any historical value. This assertion euables rationalism. fo suppress the entire narrative of the journey of Joseph and Mary to Betuleheio, the birth of Jesus Christ in that town, the adoration of the Magi, the flight iuto Egypt. We have unders^o >d all this ; and we take it for granted that the first Chapter of St Matthew is formally rejected by the modern critic What is cwr gurprise then, to find, at page •23, this identical first Chapter of St. Matthew quoted, as an irrefragable authority, to prove that Jesus '' was the eldest of a very numerous family !" Page 18, the first Chapter of St. Matthew ia apocryphal ; page 23, the first Chapter of St. Matthew is an incoutjstable document. When one undertakes to Bubvert the Christian faith, it would be necessary to givj oiuwlf the trouble of being somewhat mow consistent. The precaution of citing iv the foot notes, only the numbers of the evangelical texts, without reproducing the texts themselves, may possibly deceive ordinary readers ; but rationalists ought to know, that the Gospel has been, is, and will be, ev*a to the end of the world, studied >erse by -verse, and letter by letter. A work destined to annihilate the Gospel, ought to be able to sustain an examination as rigorous, at least, as th.it which th<* Gospel itself has undergone for the last eighteen ceuturies. Thu incidental reflection may sufficeto make us comprehend how it is that the Vit de Jesut has missed itd aim. The work has yet to begin. (2.) Bossuet., Elevat, sur lei Mysteres, xv. sera., v, Ele> , torn, vii (3 ) Vie de JiS-ius, p 20, note. (-1.) Luc, iv, 23— 33. (5.) Matth ,i. 1...17 (6 ) Jesu, fill David, miserere roei (Marc, x, 47, 45.) Christum filium ease David. (Id. xii, 35) (7.) Vie de Jesus, Introd , pag. xxxvm. (s.) Ego Jesu— Ego sum radix et geuus David. (Apex) xxii, 10.) (9.) Vie de Jesus Introd. (10 ) Act. Apoat , i 29, 32. (1 1.) Rom. vii, 1, 3. (12 ; Vie de vKiiia. (L:J.) Daus Galatiuui, cap. iv. lib. iv. (14.) Joan.. Eviuur xlx 15,19,21,25. ' «'*"'