Transcriber's Note This version of the text is unable to reproduce certain typographic features. Italics are delimited with the '_' character as _italic_. Bold text is delimited with the '=' character. Any text printed using "small capitals" was shifted to all upper-case. Please see the transcriber's notes at the end of this text for a more complete account of any other textual issues and their resolution. ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY. VOL. II. THE APOSTLES. NEW WORKS, BY ERNEST RENAN. Uniform with this volume, price $1.75. I.--THE LIFE OF JESUS. II.--THE APOSTLES. III.--SAINT PAUL. (_In press._) The works of Ernest Renan are of great power and learning, earnestly and honestly written, beautiful in style, admirable in treatment, and filled with reverence, tenderness, and warmth of heart. *** _Single copies sent by mail, free, on receipt of price, by_ CARLETON, PUBLISHER, New York. THE APOSTLES. BY ERNEST RENAN, MEMBRE DE L'INSTITUT. AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF JESUS," ETC., ETC. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH. [Illustration] NEW YORK: _Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway._ _PARIS: MICHEL LEVY FRERES._ M DCCC LXVI. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by GEO. W. CARLETON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. THE NEW YORK PRINTING COMPANY _81, 83, and 85 Centre Street_, NEW YORK. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE _INTRODUCTION.--Critical Examination of Original Documents_ 7 _CHAPTER I.--Formation of Beliefs relative to the Resurrection of Jesus.--The Apparitions at Jerusalem_ 54 _CHAPTER II.--Departure of the Disciples from Jerusalem.--Second Galilean life of Jesus_ 71 _CHAPTER III.--Return of the Apostles to Jerusalem.--End of the period of Apparitions_ 83