COM M u NICA IONS.
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MEssRs EDIToRs In perusing the columns OF youi
interesting Sheet was rather surprised to find that
you, too have given publicity to that copperplate i'm
posture, which has frequently appeared in other
public newspapers claiming to be the identical death
warrant Of Jesus Christ " Now, according to my hum
BILE opinion, the object Of this monkish imposture
to raise money forever superficial reader may at
once question its right to genuineness, first from the
fact that it claims to have been engraven stated in
Of the London papers, in Hebrew characters
the Hebrew language being confined, in that age, to
the learned is the Greek, Of the present day And
then again, from the closing sentence, which directs
copy to be sent "to each Tribe" from which il is
evident, the author Of the mposture ignorant Of
the nonexstence OF Isaelitsh tribes during the days
Of Tiberius, the Roman mperor. aaffsY - .


Lord Howard, the purchaser Of this sacred impos-
tpre, whose gullibiity excited the laughter Of his
colmtrymen, felt heartily ashamed Of his purchase,
and would have gladly resold il at price approx
mating the purchase money. u A


Any man who reads the evangelical record Of thu
trial and condemnation Of Christ win readily perceive
that testimony was admissible at the bar OF PLATE
but that which Christ bore Of himself; namely, that
he the MessIan, rfc Sur 81 tho iiyi.' aaa'fn,
this-his oaon testimony--he was condemned to die;
and not for other specifications additional, il is true,
which appear in this newly discovered /" literal death
warrant"


In word, Christianity needs not the affected resur-
recon OF marble vases copper plate engravngs to
establish the fact that her founder condemned as
an mpostor. No good accrue to her friends from
such pretended discoveries. And il her enemies will


not be persuaded OF the veracty Of her exalted CLAIMS
by the reasonabeness OF her doctrines, and the holy
lives Of her followers surely marble and brass
tablets arising from the dead, will not convince them


JOSEPHUS.