Chapter I: Front Matter

PHILOCHRISTUS

_Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord_

PHILOCHRISTUS
MEMOIRS
OF
A DISCIPLE OF THE LORD

_ἔμαθεν ἀφ’ ὧν ἔπαθεν τὴν ὑπακοήν_

London
MACMILLAN AND CO
1878

_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved_

LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL, E. C.

_TO_
_THE AUTHOR OF ‘ECCE HOMO’_
_NOT MORE IN ADMIRATION OF HIS WRITINGS_
_THAN IN GRATITUDE_
_FOR THE SUGGESTIVE INFLUENCE_
_OF A LONG AND INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP._

_PHILOCHRISTUS THE ELDER TO THE SAINTS OF THE CHURCH IN LONDINIUM,
GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST._

_Forasmuch as almost all those disciples who with me saw the Lord Jesus in the flesh, are now fallen asleep, and I myself am well stricken in years and daily expect the summons of the Lord; it hath therefore seemed good to me to bequeath unto you some memorial of Christ in writing; which, instead of my voice, shall testify to you of him for ever._

_All the more need seemeth thereof because the Lord delayeth his coming. For now these ten years Jerusalem hath been trodden down of the Gentiles, and the words of the Lord concerning the destruction of the Holy City have been fulfilled; and yet he cometh not. Yea, and sometimes my mind presageth that his coming __may be yet longer delayed, even till all they that knew him in the flesh have fallen asleep._

_For this cause I was long ago moved, even from the second or third year after the destruction of the Holy City, to leave some record behind me to testify of the Lord. But when I adventured to write, behold, it was an hard matter and well‐nigh impossible, to set forth such an image of the Lord Jesus as should be at once according to the truth, and yet not altogether too bright for mortal eye to look upon and love. Therefore at the last, when I perceived that it was not given unto me to portray any character of the Lord as he was in himself, I determined rather to set forth an history of mine own life; wherein, as in a mirror, might perchance be discerned some lineaments of the countenance of Christ, seen as by reflexion, in the life of one that loved him._

THE TABLE

_Chapter_
1 _Of my childhood in Galilee; and how I gave myself
wholly to the study of the Law._
2 _Of my doubts concerning the Law; and of the Patriots
or Galileans; and of the expectation concerning John
the son of Zachariah._
3 _Concerning the casting out of unclean Spirits; and of
the nature of the Redemption of Israel; and how I first
saw Jesus of Nazareth._
4 _Of the doctrine of John the Prophet, how it suited
with the people of the land; and how I was baptized of
the Prophet._
5 _Of the Greek philosophers in Alexandria; and how I had
discourse with Philo the Alexandrine._
6 _How I found not salvation in the worship of the
Temple; nor in the teachers of Galilee; nor in the
Essenes; and how I first spake with Jesus of Nazareth._
7 _Of the Good News; and concerning the Kingdom of God;
and how we desired of Jesus new laws._
8 _Of the New Law._
9 _How Quartus interpreted the New Law._
10 _How some desired Jesus to mix the New Law with the Old
Law; and concerning the legion of swine; and how Jesus
began to teach in parables._
11 _Concerning the new power of the Forgiveness of Sins._
12 _How the Forgiveness of Sins is the Key that openeth
the New Kingdom; and how the Old Law and the New Law
must not be mixed._
13 _Of the plotting of the Pharisees against Jesus, how
they said he had a devil; and concerning the Holy
Spirit._
14 _How John the Prophet doubted concerning Jesus; and
concerning them that are __“__born of women;__”__ and
of the beheading of John the Prophet._
15 _How Jesus fled from Capernaum, and the Galileans at
first fell away from him; and concerning the levy in
Galilee; and of the visit of Jesus to Nazareth._
16 _How, after the death of John the Prophet, Jesus
foresaw that he also must be slain; and of the Bread of
Life, and the feeding of the five thousand; and
concerning the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees._
17 _How Xanthias the Alexandrine said that the philosophy
of Jesus aimed at the taking in of the Gentiles into
the Kingdom, and at the enfranchisement of slaves; and
how he found fault with Jesus for that he called
himself the Son of man._
18 _Of signs in heaven; and concerning the healing of the
Syrophœnician maiden, how Jesus seemed to gain thereby
some new knowledge._
19 _How Jesus would work no sign in heaven; and concerning
his temptation and wherefore he denied to work signs in
heaven._
20 _How Jesus led us, in our exile, to the Rock of
Salvation; and how he founded the Temple of his
Congregation thereon; and how he gave the Key thereof
to Simon Peter._
21 _How Jesus, having now determined to die, spake of that
which was to come, with Moses and Elias, upon the Mount
Hermon._
22 _Of our going up to Jerusalem; and of the division
between parents and children; and how Jesus testified
of a Day of Judgment._
23 _Of covetousness; and of fleeing from Death into Life;
and concerning the Law of Retribution._
24 _Of the falling away of Judas of Kerioth; and of the
Times and Seasons; and of the Chief Places in the
Kingdom; and how Jesus did and said nothing except it
were prepared for him by the Father._
25 _Concerning the fire of the Lord; and of the parables
of watching; and of the Holy Spirit; and how Quartus
urgeth that Jesus knew not all things beforehand._
26 _How Jesus went down to Jerusalem, as a king, to wage
war against Satan in the Temple; and how he foresaw
that the Temple must be cast down; and of the parable
of the withered fig‐tree._
27 _How Jesus prophesied of troubles, and of a great
battle against Satan; and in the end the victory of the
Son of man; but, first of all, his death._
28 _How Jesus, by his Testament, bequeathed himself to his
disciples for ever; and how he bare the sins of men in
Gethsemane._
29 _Of the crucifixion of Jesus; and of his last words
upon the cross._
30 _How the Holy Spirit, through much sorrow, prepared the
disciples to behold Jesus risen from the dead; and of
the vision of angels, which appeared first of all unto
the women._
31 _How Jesus appeared ofttimes to his disciples; and how,
after many days, he ascended up to heaven._
32 _How Jesus now ruleth the world, sitting on the right
hand of the Father in heaven._

PHILOCHRISTUS