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

Salvation; and how he founded the Temple of his
            Congregation thereon; and how he gave the Key thereof
            to Simon Peter._
       21   _How Jesus, having now determined to die, spake of that
            which was to come, with Moses and Elias, upon the Mount
            Hermon._
       22   _Of our going up to Jerusalem; and of the division
            between parents and children; and how Jesus testified
            of a Day of Judgment._
       23   _Of covetousness; and of fleeing from Death into Life;
            and concerning the Law of Retribution._
       24   _Of the falling away of Judas of Kerioth; and of the
            Times and Seasons; and of the Chief Places in the
            Kingdom; and how Jesus did and said nothing except it
            were prepared for him by the Father._
       25   _Concerning the fire of the Lord; and of the parables
            of watching; and of the Holy Spirit; and how Quartus
            urgeth that Jesus knew not all things beforehand._
       26   _How Jesus went down to Jerusalem, as a king, to wage
            war against Satan in the Temple; and how he foresaw
            that the Temple must be cast down; and of the parable
            of the withered fig‐tree._
       27   _How Jesus prophesied of troubles, and of a great
            battle against Satan; and in the end the victory of the
            Son of man; but, first of all, his death._
       28   _How Jesus, by his Testament, bequeathed himself to his
            disciples for ever; and how he bare the sins of men in
            Gethsemane._
       29   _Of the crucifixion of Jesus; and of his last words
            upon the cross._
       30   _How the Holy Spirit, through much sorrow, prepared the
            disciples to behold Jesus risen from the dead; and of
            the vision of angels, which appeared first of all unto
            the women._
       31   _How Jesus appeared ofttimes to his disciples; and how,
            after many days, he ascended up to heaven._
       32   _How Jesus now ruleth the world, sitting on the right
            hand of the Father in heaven._






                              PHILOCHRISTUS





                                CHAPTER I


My former name was Joseph the son of Simeon, and I was born in Sepphoris,
the metropolis of Galilee, in the twentieth year of the reign of the
Emperor Augustus, about four years before the death of King Herod. In
those days Israel was grievously afflicted, and tribulation befell the
righteous. Satan put it into the heart of the rulers of the land to move
the people to the worship of false gods, and the Lord God had not yet
raised up a Redeemer for Israel.

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Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord

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