16 Aug 1815

Jug. True

I. Proleg.

III. Princip.

Ch. Miracles

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III. Resuscitation.

The miracles by which the greatest difficulty is presented is that of which the daughter of Jairus is represented as being the subject.

Of this resuscitation, by three out of the four biographers an account is given: the man is a man in office—a ruler of the synagogue: The scene lies in his house in this occasion, though a promiscuous multitude were turned out, no fewer than four persons, are represented as remaining percipient witnesses viz. beside Jesus himself, three of his disciples—Peter, James and John, and the father and mother of the child—a girl of 12 years of age. [marginal note: viz. Luke, Matthew, and Mark. Matthew 9: 18–26, Mark 5:21–43, Luke 8: 40–56.]

But the town in which the synagogue stood? of this no mention is to be found.

According to Matthew what passed on this occasion passed after Jesus had just passed forth from his own City. Matt. IX. 1.

According to | |, the place was in the country on that side of the sea of lake of | | Galilee which was opposite to the country of the Gergesenes. According to King James Bible both Mark 5: 1, and Luke 8:26 name the town as Gadarenes although notes give Gerasenes as alternative.

According Mark | | the place was in the country on that side of the sea or lake of | | Galilee which was opposite to the country of the Gadarenes.

Under all this discordance and all this uncertainty in regard to a circumstance of such extreme importance to every purpose of scrutiny as that of the place that this resuscitation is to be added to the number of those which had no foundation in fact, seems as probable an interpretation as any other of which this story is susceptible.