Re: Eusebius as a forger.
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 1:56 pm
Ben Smith wrote:
I'll grant that a Christian interpreter would take the statement of Jesus about what the high priest said to be an accurate representation of the priest's views. Why attribute the view which Jesus attributes to the individual high priest in the singular to the plural leaders of the synagogue who dragged Jesus to his death?Matthew 26.59-64: 59 Now the chief priests [Vulgate: principes autem sacerdotum] and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death. 60 They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward, 61 and said, "This man stated, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.'" 62 The high priest stood up and said to Him, "Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?" 63 But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest [Vulgate: princeps sacerdotum] said to Him, “I adjure You by the living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God.” 64 Jesus says to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”