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§ Hardness of heart

Faith

Josephus

The other story is a story of Josephus. While Nero Wars of the Jews B. V. Ch. 12. L Estrange translation London 1702 Folio p. 909 was yet alive, and Vespasian, though in great force, had not as yet taken possession of the throne, Josephus who being was then a prisoner of his, obtained an audience, and saluted him by the title of Emperor. For this compliment, Vespasian when Emperor after upon coming to the throne set him at liberty: and presently he and his son Titus took into favour the discerning and ingenious prudent Jew.

In those days it was the fashion to believe in miracles prodigies. Tacitus, the most discerning of all the Roman historians— Tacitus with all his discernment, believed or at any rate pretended to believe in miracles. Josephus possessed or at any rate professed the same credence. In those days times and indeed at all times it was in that country the fashion to believe in miracles. Witness in this propensity, Vespasian having for a long time his eye to the throne, but and with no better other title than that which he derived from conceived the notion, saw that by every incident by which the notion of his being a favourite of the powers above could be produced implanted or confirmed, his chance of success would be improved. deleted textOf these miracles in which in one of which he was sole pretended actor and real relating to the other principal actor, he was probably in both instances the /a/ contriver. But from his being in one of these instances a reporter of a miracle in which he being if not the contriver of imposture at any rate privy to it it was impossible he should could not have been a believer, it follows not but that he may have been a believer in other miracles.

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Tacitus

Tacitus Hist. Lib. V. §. 13. II. 205

Clearly understood to the Roman Statesman and Historian was the difference between superstition and religion: not more clearly to any Christian or to any Jew or to any Christian to the most pious Christian, to the most pious Jew. of Supernatural agency the subject, Superstition the imagination of others: religion, our own.

One miracle more: a prodigy is now the name by which it is designated. The temple of Jerusalem the scene: the prodigy true: the interpretation put upon it by the Jews themselves — in that lay the only falsity. Such was their hardness of heart, they supposed took themselves instead of Vespasian and Titus to have been the portended conquerors.

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Hardness of Heart

Among the habits and propensities of an unfurnished as also and what is as bad of an ill—furnished mind is that of confounding in the first place at the time of perception, and thereafter down to the time of narration, perceptions with imaginations and inferences and imaginations suggested by those perceptions. A man presents to their senses certain phænomena, asserting all the while in the character of efficient causes, effects or concomitant circumstances other phænomena which have no existence: unable to discriminate the one from the other that which they see or hear from that which they only hear of, they give credence to the whole compound of truth and falshood in the lump.

Of this species of intellectual weakness — this incapacity of distinguishing the work of their own imaginations from the work fruit of their own perceptions — no one can have been in a considerable degree in the habit of being present at trials at law in the Jury trial mode, without having had frequent occasion to take notice.

At the present day, a man among men whose had the benefit of situation on the scale of education and intellectual acquirement is in any considerable degree elevated above that of the labouring the lowest vulgar class is in general pretty well effectually exempt for this species of intellectual weakness.

But at the all times preceding the days of Locke, and in particular at and about the time in question, men of the very highest class in point of intellectual acquirement may be seen labouring under it. Of such among the Jews Flavius Josephus, and among the Romans, Tacitus.