41, 42).] [Footnote 7: It is known that the calculation which serves as basis of the common era was made in the sixth century by _Dionysius the Less_.
This calculation implies certain purely hypothetical data.] The name of _Jesus_, which was given him, is an alteration from _Joshua_.

It was a very common name; but afterward mysteries, and an allusion to his character of Saviour, were naturally sought for in it.[1] Perhaps he, like all mystics, exalted himself in this respect.
It is thus that more than one great vocation in history has been caused by a name given to a child without premeditation.

Ardent natures never bring themselves to see aught of chance in what concerns them.

God has regulated everything for them, and they see a sign of the supreme will in the most insignificant circumstances.
[Footnote 1: Matt.i.

21; Luke i.