50. Apollo, bishop of Cæsarea. 52. Sosthenes, bishop of Colophon. 56. Mark, Barnabas's companion, bishop of Appollonia. 57. Justus, bishop of Eleutheropolis. 58. Artemas, bishop of Lystra. 59. Clemens, bishop of Sardinia. 68. 69. Pudens. 70. Trophimus, who was martyred with Paul. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. Luke x. 17, 24. Jesus delivers the parable of the Good Samaritan, and then visits Martha in the village of Bethany. Luke x. 25, 42. Christ teaches his disciples how to pray-expels a devil that was dumb-and dines with a Pharisee. Luke xi. 1, 54. He refuses to divide an inheritance between two brothers; and delivers several parables. Luke xii. 13, 59. Christ preaches repentance from the punishment of the Galileans-heals a woman who had been bowed to G gether eighteen years-delivers some parables-and is warned of Herod's wishing to kill him. Luke xiii. 1. 35. Cures a man who had the dropsy-teaches humility— and delivers several parables. Luke, chapters xiv. to xvi. Jesus goes to Jerusalem at the feast of tabernacles, and teaches in the temple; and the Pharisees are offended with their Officers and Nicodemas for their favorable opinof him. John vii. 1, 53. Jesus avoids condemning a woman accused of adultery. John viii. 1. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth, and he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore and washed, and came seeing. John ix. 1, 41. The exordium to an apocryphal MS. life of Jesus*, found in 1595 in a cave at Granada, in Spain, written on sheets of lead in Arabic, and translated into Latin by Bartholomew and Patrano, states, that the blind man whose cure is recorded here, was Ebenather, an Arabian, to whom the work is attributed: he gives the history of his cure in the following words : My father, Saleh Ebenather, was an Arabian, of the country of Dus, in Arabia, minor, much esteemed, and of great nobility; and God gave him great knowledge and riches. His illustrious genealogy was derived from Saleh, the prophet of God, a man remarkable for prophecy and a spirit of devotion: he had four male children and three female; the names of the male children were Aison and Sadon, and I, Ebenather, Liber insignium actionum Domini nostri Jesu ac miraculorum suorum: nec non et matris ejus, Mariæ Sanctæ virginis, et vita illius, et miraculorum suorum, a dei conceptionis, usque ad mortem suam, et ascentionem ejus in cælum. per Thesiphonem Æbenather discipulum Jacobi apostoli. Sloanian Library, British Museum, 2864. and Eberard; of the females, Scemsa, and Afia, and Daria. I was born blind, and my brother Eberard dumb and deaf, and our father was afflicted for us. And hearing of the fame of our Lord Jesus, the Spirit of the true God, that he cured those who were born blind, and the leprous, and the deaf, and the blind, and the paralytic, and cast out devils from men, and raised the dead in the holy land, he resolved to go to him to receive his blessing. He therefore provided for his family and servants, and placed me and my brother Eberard on two camels, and travelled to the land of Galilee, and found him and his disciples, by the report of the ten men whom he had delivered from leprosy; and Saleh then said to him, O my Lord, I am come to thee directly from the land of Dus, that my two sons may be cured of their blindness, and dumbness, and deafness. I have seen the great benefits thou hast conferred, and have faith in thee, and know certainly that no person in the world can cure them besides thee. And Jesus said to him, O Saleh, thou art invincible in the true faith, and I will comply with thy wishes: he then took dust in his hand and mixed his spittle with it, and placed it on my eyes, and I saw; and he commanded me to wash them in the bath of the oratory. And he placed his hand on the head of my brother Eberard, and breathed into his mouth three times, and cured him; and replenished him with knowledge, and he spoke divers languages; and the first words he spoke were, I testify that there is no God, but God, and his Spirit of truth. And our Lord Jesus said to him, Thou art Cecilius, which signifies, excellent preacher and propagator of the faith. And then turning to his disciple James, the apostle, our senior, said to him, These two shall be thy disciples, who will be useful as helpers in the faith; receive them under thy patronage as is expedient for them. Then our father Saleh Æbenather gave to our Lord Jesus one hundred Arabian pieces of gold, and placed them in the hands of Peter, the apostle, by his order, and prayed permission to make a house near him; and went into the land of Dus to return to him with all his family; and left us brethren in his protection, and in protection of James, our senior. And my father came to him with all his family, and said to him, Wilt thou permit me Lord to build a house for myself? And he said to him, O Saleh, I will build thee a house in Paradise, and thou shalt dwell near me in this world and in the other; thy intention is good, and thy faith great, and is accepted by God. He then conducted him into his house. And a fever attacked him, and he died after three days. And our Lord Jesus said to him, Blessed art thou O Saleh, thou hast seen the blessed; and being dead, God and his angels shall be with thee, and thy family shall be blessed after thee. And three days after him our mother Robbeja, his wife, died in the same manner. And after this, through the miracles of our Lord Jesus, our brethren and family believed in him, and became of the number of the saints. And then I and my brother Eberard expressed gratitude for their deliverance from error, and their great faith. And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: and they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the Priests. And it came to pass, that as they went, they were cleansed. Luke xvii. 11, 14. Jesus delivers the parable of the importunate widow. Luke xviii. 1, 8. While at Jerusalem, the Jews threaten to stone him for blasphemy. And he went away again beyond Jordan. John x. 22, 42. Year of Christ thirty-three.-Intelligence of the sickness of Lazarus is brought to Jesus. John xi. 1, 6.-He receives little children. Luke xviii. 15, 17.-Informs his disciples of the death of Lazarus. John xi. 11, 17.Instructs a Ruler how to inherit enternal life. Luke xviii. 18, 27.—and delivers the parable of the labourers in the vineyard. Matt. xx. 1, 16. It was a cave, Jesus cometh to the grave of Lazarus. and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. John xi. 38, 44. Peter de Natalis,* Book 1, chap. 72, affirms Lazarus to have been the first Bishop of Marseilles, in France. Lazarus, the Bishop, the brother of Martha and Mary Magdalene, and a disciple of Christ, was a nobleman of the Jewish people; rich and extremely powerful.-His father was Cyrus-his mother Eucharia. After being dead four days he was raised by the Lord, and became a Catalogus Sanctorum et gestorum eorum, ex diversis volumninibus col= lectus. Editus a Reverendissimo in Christo Pater Bomino Petro de Natalibus de Venetiis. Dei Gratia Episcopo Equilino. Lug. Bat. MBrix. |