27 Jan y 1816

Not Paul

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Paul’s Vision

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4

But though at no time a story of a vision i.e. a story in which an individual without any corresponding proof asserts himself to have seen a vision can present any rational / reasonable / title to credence, yet that at such a time as that in question stories to this effect should be brought forward and not only be brought forward but obtain extensive credence―in this there is nothing wonderful: in this there is nothing but what is perfectly in unison with / conformable to / the known state of things―in a word the known state of minds―even of the most cultivated minds at that time: and not much, at that time, but at times in a considerable degree posterior to, and therefore more [experienced] MS ‘experience’. / fuller of experience / and mature than the particular time in question.

For proof of this three / four / anecdotes will be abundantly sufficient: viz one related by Josephus the historian Flavius Josephus (37- c.98). himself as he says being an eye witness of what he relates: the two / three / others related by Tacitus the historian of Vespasian the Emperor. See, for example, Tacitus, Historiae, IV. lxxxiii for an account of a vision seen by Vespasian.

 Go on with these stories from Jug. True.