PHILOCHRISTUS _Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord_ [Illustration] PHILOCHRISTUS MEMOIRS OF A DISCIPLE OF THE LORD _ἔμαθεν ἀφ’ ὧν ἔπαθεν τὴν ὑπακοήν_ London MACMILLAN AND CO 1878 _The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved_ LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, BREAD STREET HILL, E. C. _TO_ _THE AUTHOR OF ‘ECCE HOMO’_ _NOT MORE IN ADMIRATION OF HIS WRITINGS_ _THAN IN GRATITUDE_ _FOR THE SUGGESTIVE INFLUENCE_ _OF A LONG AND INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP._ _PHILOCHRISTUS THE ELDER TO THE SAINTS OF THE CHURCH IN LONDINIUM, GRACE, MERCY, AND PEACE FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST._ _Forasmuch as almost all those disciples who with me saw the Lord Jesus in the flesh, are now fallen asleep, and I myself am well stricken in years and daily expect the summons of the Lord; it hath therefore seemed good to me to bequeath unto you some memorial of Christ in writing; which, instead of my voice, shall testify to you of him for ever._ _All the more need seemeth thereof because the Lord delayeth his coming. For now these ten years Jerusalem hath been trodden down of the Gentiles, and the words of the Lord concerning the destruction of the Holy City have been fulfilled; and yet he cometh not. Yea, and sometimes my mind presageth that his coming __may be yet longer delayed, even till all they that knew him in the flesh have fallen asleep._ _For this cause I was long ago moved, even from the second or third year after the destruction of the Holy City, to leave some record behind me to testify of the Lord. But when I adventured to write, behold, it was an hard matter and well‐nigh impossible, to set forth such an image of the Lord Jesus as should be at once according to the truth, and yet not altogether too bright for mortal eye to look upon and love. Therefore at the last, when I perceived that it was not given unto me to portray any character of the Lord as he was in himself, I determined rather to set forth an history of mine own life; wherein, as in a mirror, might perchance be discerned some lineaments of the countenance of Christ, seen as by reflexion, in the life of one that loved him._ THE TABLE