To maintain this dogma it is affirmed that by "brethren and sisters" is meant cousins. Dr. Farrar, who in regard to this as in regard to most disputed points, assumes a non-committal or conciliatory attitude, concedes that "the natural supposition that, after the miraculous conception of our Lord, Joseph and Mary lived together in the married state, and that James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon, with daughters, whose names are not recorded, were subsequently born to them," is "in accordance certainly with the prima facie evidence of the Gospels" (Life of Christ, p. 51). 479 Who did Mary say was the father of Jesus? Luke: When he remained behind in Jerusalem, and they found him in the temple, "his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father [Joseph] and I have sought thee sorrowing" (ii, 48). To believe that a Jewish virgin was overshadowed by a spirit, and miraculously conceived and bore a child, requires more convincing proof than the dream of a credulous lover. We ought at least to have the testimony of the mother. But we have it not. She testifies that Joseph is his father. 480 What did Jesus' neighbors say regarding his paternity? Matthew: They said, "Is not this the carpenter's [Joseph's] son?" (xiii, 55.) Luke: "They said, Is not this Joseph's son?" (iv, 22.) John: "They said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph?" (vi, 42.) The Rev. Dr. Crapsey, of the Episcopal church, in his work on "Religion and Politics" (p. 289), makes this significant admission regarding the divine origin of Jesus: "The fact of his miraculous birth was unknown to himself, unknown to his mother, and unknown to the whole Christian community of the first generations." Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, wrote: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" (Jefferson Works, vol. iv, p. 365, Randolph's ed.). 481 Who did Peter declare him to be? "Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God" (Acts ii, 22). Who did Paul declare him to be? "There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy ii, 5). The Christ of Peter and Paul was not a God, but a man--a man upon whom had been bestowed divine gifts--but yet a man. 482 What testimony is ascribed to Paul? "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh" (1 Timothy iii, 16). This is a gross perversion of Scripture for the purpose of making Paul a witness to Christ's divinity. Regarding this text and the Trinitarian text inserted in 1 John, Sir Isaac Newton, in his letter previously quoted from, says: