He was sixty-two years old when the Prophet of Nazareth was at the height of his activity, and he survived him at least ten years.

What a pity that the chances of life did not conduct him into Galilee! What would he not have taught us! Josephus, writing specially for pagans, is not so candid.

His short notices of Jesus, of John the Baptist, of Judas the Gaulonite, are dry and colorless.

We feel that he seeks to present these movements, so profoundly Jewish in character and spirit, under a form which would be intelligible to Greeks and Romans.

I believe the passage respecting Jesus[1] to be authentic.