Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord

Name: Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord
Author: Abbott, Edwin Abbott

Abbott, Edwin Abbott

Christian fiction; Jesus Christ -- Fiction

_Chapter_
        1   _Of my childhood in Galilee; and how I gave myself
            wholly to the study of the Law._
        2   _Of my doubts concerning the Law; and of the Patriots
            or Galileans; and of the expectation concerning John
            the son of Zachariah._
        3   _Concerning the casting out of unclean Spirits; and of
            the nature of the Redemption of Israel; and how I first
            saw Jesus of Nazareth._
        4   _Of the doctrine of John the Prophet, how it suited
            with the people of the land; and how I was baptized of
            the Prophet._
        5   _Of the Greek philosophers in Alexandria; and how I had
            discourse with Philo the Alexandrine._
        6   _How I found not salvation in the worship of the
            Temple; nor in the teachers of Galilee; nor in the
            Essenes; and how I first spake with Jesus of Nazareth._
        7   _Of the Good News; and concerning the Kingdom of God;
            and how we desired of Jesus new laws._
        8   _Of the New Law._
        9   _How Quartus interpreted the New Law._
       10   _How some desired Jesus to mix the New Law with the Old
            Law; and concerning the legion of swine; and how Jesus
            began to teach in parables._
       11   _Concerning the new power of the Forgiveness of Sins._
       12   _How the Forgiveness of Sins is the Key that openeth
            the New Kingdom; and how the Old Law and the New Law
            must not be mixed._
       13   _Of the plotting of the Pharisees against Jesus, how
            they said he had a devil; and concerning the Holy
            Spirit._
       14   _How John the Prophet doubted concerning Jesus; and
            concerning them that are __“__born of women;__”__ and
            of the beheading of John the Prophet._
       15   _How Jesus fled from Capernaum, and the Galileans at
            first fell away from him; and concerning the levy in
            Galilee; and of the visit of Jesus to Nazareth._
       16   _How, after the death of John the Prophet, Jesus
            foresaw that he also must be slain; and of the Bread of
            Life, and the feeding of the five thousand; and
            concerning the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees._
       17   _How Xanthias the Alexandrine said that the philosophy
            of Jesus aimed at the taking in of the Gentiles into
            the Kingdom, and at the enfranchisement of slaves; and
            how he found fault with Jesus for that he called
            himself the Son of man._
       18   _Of signs in heaven; and concerning the healing of the
            Syrophœnician maiden, how Jesus seemed to gain thereby
            some new knowledge._
       19   _How Jesus would work no sign in heaven; and concerning
            his temptation and wherefore he denied to work signs in
            heaven._
       20   _How Jesus led us, in our exile, to the Rock of

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Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord

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