6 Aug 1815

For Jug True or Not Paul

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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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